Effects of Drug Price Changes on Patient Expenditure: Evidence from China’s Zero Markup Drug Policy

Figure 1

Event study: outpatient costs. Note. The y-axis denotes the estimated coefficient of the ZMDP variable in different regressions. (a) Outpatient expenditure (log). (b) Reimbursable expenditure (log). (c) Out-of-pocket expenditure (log). (d) Out-of-pocket ratio (%).

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