Practice and implications of the medical insurance payment system reform: Exploration based on Health XI Project / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

Medical insurance payment reform is an important part of healthcare reform in China. Based on the practice and research of China Rural Health Project ( hereinafter referred asHealth XI Project) financed by World Bank (WB) and UK Department for International Development (DFID) implemented in 40 counties of 8 Chinese provinces between 2009 and 2014 , this thesis analyses the principle and feasible policy route of medical payment re-form for the country, by ways of reviewing the policy evolution, and summarizing the process of project pilot from sin-gle mode of payment-a simple mixed payment-to the comprehensive payment system reform and analyzing the advanta-ges and disadvantages of medical insurance payment methods.