Third People's Hospital of Chengdu

Third People's Hospital of Chengdu takes its strategy as the objective, the China’s National Performance Assessment of Tertiary Public Hospitals and health insurance payment reform as its orientation, and the value of technical labor as its core. On this basis it established a performance evaluation and distribution system that rests on workload evaluation, uses "RBRVS + DRGs + CMI" as its tools and balances efficiency, quality and cost. Service items and complex case types that are technically demanding, high-risk and labor-intensive receive higher rewards, so that technical content is recognized.

The hospital set up a steering committee and an office for performance reform, with several departments taking part in comprehensive performance management and the supervision office providing oversight. It uses DRGs to extend the depth and breadth of the case groups it treats, uses CMI to guide clinical practice toward more demanding techniques, and sets workload point values according to DRG weights.