Research on the Structure of Outpatient Costs Against the Background of High-Quality Development of Public Hospitals

Corresponding author: Li Zhichun, lzcwyq1@163.com

DOI: 10.12201/bmr.202604.00119

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  Abstract: Objective: To analyze the structural change trend and key influencing factors of outpatient costs in a tertiary stomatological hospital in Ningxia from 2016 to 2024, and to provide decision-making reference for optimizing the cost structure and reasonably controlling medical expenses. Methods: Descriptive analysis and structural change method were used to evaluate the structural changes of outpatient expenses in a tertiary stomatological hospital in Ningxia, and grey correlation method was used to determine the main factors affecting the growth of outpatient expenses. Results: Operation cost, treatment cost and material cost were the main factors affecting the structural change, while the correlation between drug cost and inspection cost and the contribution rate of structural change were relatively low, and the correlation between treatment cost and outpatient cost was the highest. Conclusion: The cost structure of the hospital has broken the dilemma of “consuming medical expenses.” We should continue to control the cost of oral consumables, expand the scope of medical insurance reimbursement, and promote the high-quality development of public hospitals.

  Key words: Stomatological Hospital; Outpatient Expenses; Structural Change Method; Grey Relational Analysis Method

  Submit time: 15 April 2026

  Copyright: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted biomedRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
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