title: A survey on the attitudes of doctors towards health insurance payment in the medical consortium.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Medical consortium is a specific vertical integration model of regional medical resources. To improve medical resources utilization and control the health insurance costs by fee-for-service plans (FFS), capitation fee and diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), it is important to explore the attitudes of doctors towards the different health insurance payment in the medical consortium in Shanghai.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire survey was carried out randomly on 50 doctors respectively in 3 different levels medical institutes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The statistical results showed that 90% of doctors in tertiary hospitals had the tendency towards FFS, whereas 78% in secondary hospitals towards DRGs and 84% in community health centers towards capitation fee.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are some obvious differences on doctors' attitudes towards health insurance payment in 3 different levels hospitals. Thus, it is feasible that health insurance payment should be supposed to the doctors' attitudes using the bundled payments along with the third-party payment as a supervisor within consortium.
authors.affiliation: Antai School of Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200052, China.
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Wei-Guo
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D002681:China; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires