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Table 3 Outpatient health service utilization per patient by cities

From: Health care utilization for patients with stroke: a 3-year cross-sectional study of China’s two urban health insurance schemes across four cities

 

Beijing

Shanghai

Tianjin

Chongqing

P-value

UEBMI

URBMI

UEBMI

URBMI

UEBMI

URBMI

UEBMI

URBMI

Median total medical cost (RMB)

500.2

356.9

260.8

233.4

240.8

156.2

293.0

211.0

< 0.001

IQR

[267.0,885.7]

[180.0,686.7]

[180.0,399.9]

[142.4,348.4]

[143.9,447.3]

[109.0,261.2]

[91.3,585.9]

[103.5,407.7]

 

Median within- insurance OOP expenses (RMB)

61.8

151.2

70.0

112.6

90.9

93.7

0.1

11.2

< 0.001

IQR

[28.8,133.4]

[38.2,356.7]

[40.6,136.2]

[64.4,150.0]

[39.0,200.1]

[62.9,170.3]

[0.0,34.9]

[4.6,24.2]

 

Median outside insurance OOP expenses (RMB)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.0

0.0

< 0.001

IQR

[0.0,23.6]

[0.0,0.0]

[0.0,0.0]

[0.0,0.0]

[0.0,1.0]

[0.0,1.0]

[0.0,0.0]

[0.0,4.2]

 

Reimbursement rate (%)

88.9

50.0

75.9

51.1

62.5

0.0

97.5

89.9

< 0.001

IQR

[82.4,88.9]

[0.0,50.0]

[69.8,80.0]

[50.0,60.0]

[50.7,75.0]

[0.0,50.0]

[88.3,100.0]

[85.8,94.8]

 

Median number of visits

3.0

3.0

3.0

3.0

2.0

2.0

1.0

1.0

< 0.001

IQR

[2.0,7.0]

[1.0,5.0]

[1.0,6.0]

[1.0,5.25]

[1.0,4.0]

[1.0,4.0]

[1.0,2.0]

[1.0,1.0]

 
  1. P-values were based on the Kruskal-Wallis test
  2. UEBMI Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance scheme, URBMI Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance scheme, SD standard deviation, OOP out-of-pocket, IQR interquartile range