Measures and Achievements of Containing Unreasonable Increase of Medical Expenses in Zhejiang Province

By comparing the differences between all tiers of hospitals and increases in big public hospital expenses in China,the paper elaborated the evidence why the expense level and increase in big public hospitals should be controlled.A series of measures put forward by a province in the aim of such control had evidently contained the increase of hospital expenses,being a remarkable achievement.It means that administrative intervention and a combination of different measures can serve well to control expense increase.However,more efforts are still needed to establish scientific,reasonable,and sustainable medical expense control mechanism.