Temporal Associations and Heterogeneity of Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) Payment Reform with Hospitalization Costs Among Patients with Colorectal Cancer in China
Zhiyi Luo, Biao Fan, Hongyuan Wu, Shenqi Han, Zihao Bian, Ning Zhao, Zongjiu Zhang, Shuyuan Cheng · 2026
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Zhiyi Luo and co-authors study a payment reform in a 2026 paper on cancer care costs in Beijing. Hospitals there shifted to paying a fixed bundle per case group, which pressures them to trim costs. The team asked how the change affected bills and stays for bowel cancer surgery at one Beijing hospital.
Records covered more than twelve hundred patients from 2021 to 2024, with the reform set in spring 2022. Total bills dropped at once after the change and kept drifting down each month. Supply fees drove most of the saving, and their share of the bill fell. Stays did not drop at once but shortened bit by bit over time. The authors also probe how hospitals adjusted their cost mix under the new caps.
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| CREATOR | Zhiyi Luo, Biao Fan, Hongyuan Wu, Shenqi Han, Zihao Bian, Ning Zhao, Zongjiu Zhang, Shuyuan Cheng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |