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Table 3 premium and threshold benefits coverage for hospitalization expenditures at each experimental county

From: Evaluation of the new rural cooperative medical system in China: is it working or not?

Regions

Minimum premium medical insurance coverage

(Mean ± SD)

Threshold benefit

insured coverage

 

Clinics

County

hospitals

Hospitals

above county level

 

Economically less developed regions

188.00 ± 55.73

320.00 ± 63.25

480.00 ± 122.93

5930.00 ± 2061.31

Economically developed regions

296.15 ± 116.30

503.85 ± 165.15

742.31 ± 165.15

22846.15 ± 20099.11

P-Value

0.118

0.054

0.132

0.005

  1. Insurance costs are represented in RMB.
  2. * Exchange rate during the last 2 years: 1 USD = 8 RMB Jan 2006; 1 USD = 7.46 RMB Sept 2007,