Rural-to-urban migration and its implication for new cooperative medical scheme coverage and utilization in China

BMC Public Health

Table 6 Use of hospital care by type, NCMS reimbursement rate, and reasons of not receiving NCMS reimbursement by non-migrants and migrants receiving inpatient services in 2006

		Non-migrants	Migrants
		%	%
Use of hospital care by type	Local township health care centers	39.0	17.8
	Local county level hospitals	43.5	27.9
	Out-of-county hospitals (city level and above hospitals, private hospitals)	17.5	54.3
	Total	100.0	100.0
NCMS reimbursement rates^a	0%	24.6	55.2
	> 0% and ≤ 10%	16.0	9.3
	> 10% and ≤ 20%	18.1	16.0
	> 20% and ≤ 30%	19.2	8.6
	> 30% and ≤ 40%	15.0	7.1
	> 40%	7.0	3.7
	Total	100.0	100.0
Reasons of not receiving NCMS reimbursement after inpatient services^a	Deductible fee is higher than inpatient services expenditure	8.6	4.1
	Most of the expenses could not be covered by the NCMS	9.5	2.7
	Stay in a hospital that is not designated by the NCMS	33.6	64.9
	Lack of knowledge of the NCMS policies	27.3	12.2
	Encountering difficulties obtaining reimbursement	18.6	12.8
	Others^b	2.3	3.4
	Total	100.0	100.0

a. Only people who had the NCMS in 2006 were included in the analysis.
b. Others include other people paying for the inpatient expenses, and other insurance paying for inpatient expenses

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