Can DRG payment under global budget with price adjustment curb the soaring healthcare costs? Insights from China’s reform and its underlying mechanism

The study contributed a valuable learning experience for the design of DRG-based bundled payments with developing countries and underscored the importance of monitoring on provider behaviors to mitigate unintended consequences arising from strategic adaptations to the incentive mechanism, even the ongoing reform has initially achieved a short-term success in moderating the growth of healthcare expenditures.