Diagnosis-Related group payment and its impact on hospitalization costs and patient financial protection for neurointerventional stroke care in a Chinese tertiary hospital: a retrospective analysis
Zhishui Chen, Tao Zhang, Kai Meng, Haijing Guan, Beibei Xu · 2026
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Zhishui Chen and co-authors audit what flat-rate case payments did to stroke intervention bills in Beijing. Their twenty twenty-six study uses twenty twenty-four records from a top brain hospital, over five thousand patients who had vessel-opening procedures. China diagnosis-related group payment pays a set sum per case type.
The question is twofold: did hospital costs bend, and did patients own share shrink? Complex, pricey stroke care is a stress test for any flat scheme. If payment by case trims waste without shifting costs onto families, the model earns its spread. The authors weigh both ledgers, since a reform that saves the system by billing the sick is no reform.
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| CREATOR | Zhishui Chen, Tao Zhang, Kai Meng, Haijing Guan, Beibei Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 77 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |