Table 4.
Utilization and expense of hospital admission and OP visit in 2008
| Service Type | Use of inpatient services | Use of outpatient services | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Shanghai | Beijing | Fuzhou | Chongqing | Shanghai | Beijing | Fuzhou | Chongqing |
| # patients | 572 | 561 | 355 | 608 | 503 | 379 | 228 | 341 |
| # of visits | 1762 | 1058 | 1151 | 1747 | 11,523 | 10,132 | 4650 | 5096 |
| Average number of visits per year | 3.1 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 22.9 | 26.7 | 20.4 | 14.9 |
| Per Hospital Admission/ Per OP visit | ||||||||
| Level of hospital (%) | ||||||||
| Tertiary | 63.2 | 81.6 | 96.4 | 95.3 | 65.8 | 66.5 | 78.6 | 97.4 |
| Secondary/Primary | 36.8 | 18.4 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 34.2 | 33.5 | 21.4 | 2.6 |
| Average length of stay (days) | 13.7 | 24.0 | 21.3 | 24.9 | / | / | / | / |
| Average total expense($)a | 1608 | 3703 | 2888 | 2555 | 56 | /b | 46 | 80 |
| Average OOP payments($) | 255 | 518 | 695 | 895 | 7 | / | 14 | 24 |
| Average reimbursement rate (%) | 83.3 | 88.7 | 74.5 | 63.8 | 89.9 | / | 67.1 | 64.7 |
| Average expense per day($) | 117 | 154 | 136 | 103 | / | / | / | / |
| Per Patient | ||||||||
| Average annual days of hospital admission | 42.1 | 45.3 | 68.6 | 71.3 | / | / | / | / |
| Average annual expense($) | 4953 | 6984 | 9365 | 7340 | 1288 | 1336 | 930 | 1200 |
| Average annual OOP payments($) | 785 | 976 | 2252 | 2572 | 170 | 593 | 276 | 355 |
| Average annual reimbursement rate (%) | 83.8 | 87.7 | 74.7 | 61.5 | 88.2 | 50.1 | 50.1 | 47.8 |
aAll currency was presented as the price of 2008 in US dollar (1USD = 6.94 CNY), no further discount applied
bAll of the OP visit expense for cancer in 3 months were recorded as one hospital admission (Table 1), it is not applicable to get information of each OP visit in Beijing