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September 12, 2025Risk Management and Healthcare PolicyOpen Access

Impact of Enhanced Outpatient Pooling Level on Healthcare Utilization, Costs and Fund Expenditures in China: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis

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YWYanghaotian WuSZShuting ZhengJQJingfu Qiu

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Interrupted time series analysis shows changes in healthcare utilization and costs for UEBMI enrollees, suggesting improvements are needed.

Key Points

  • The intervention increased monthly outpatient visits per capita immediately by 0.047 (P<0.05), improving healthcare access for UEBMI enrollees.
  • Medical costs per outpatient visit rose by 0.6% monthly (P<0.001), indicating higher expenditures despite improved pooling levels.
  • Out-of-pocket costs decreased immediately by 23.66% (P<0.001), but showed a subsequent increase of 1.61% monthly (P<0.001).
  • Outpatient fund expenditures surged 151.68% immediately (P<0.001), but exhibited a long-term decrease of 2.37% per month (P<0.01).

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Wu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d41ee1713b0b5dfea67fe5https://doi.org/10.2147/rmhp.s541047
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