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

Table 4

The effect of the ZMDP on patient health outcomes.

	Cured or improved at discharge	Unhealed at discharge	In-hospital mortality
ZMDP	0.00 (0.00)	−0.00 (0.00)	0.00 (0.00)
N	6,125.210	6,234.188	6,234.188
R2	0.17	0.16	0.14

Note. ZMDP, zero markup drug policy. The results are based on cross-sectional individual data and control for inpatients’ demographic characteristics, disease type, and physician. The numbers in the parentheses are standard errors clustered at the county level. Specifically, the actual coefficient (standard error) of the ZMDP for cured or improved patients at discharge is 0.0014 (0.0019), for unhealed at discharge is –0.0016 (0.0019), and for in-hospital mortality is 0.0002 (0.0003).