Table 5.

The medical expenditure, payment, and proportion in the rural area and the entire province of Guangxi

Medical expenditure and payment	Guangxi province	Rural area in Guangxia
Medical expenditure per physician visit (RMB)	86.7	99.7
Proportion of the payment of clinic expenses (%)
NCMS account	20.7	28.8
Reimburse partly or deduction	4.9	12.4
Self-paid	74.4	58.8
Mean expenditure of hospitalization (RMB)	3648	2507
Reimbursement of hospitalization (RMB)	976	762

^a The data come from Household Health Service Investigation in Guangxi 2008