"Simply put, this is a change in the structure of labor insurance payments," says Lin Chin-lung, chief of the department's hospitalization section. Aside from eliminating a few types of payments to larger hospitals and redistributing them to smaller clinics, the former structure of payments according to medicine, equipment, and tests will be adjusted to be payment according to the services.
「它可以重新分配勞保醫療費用的支出結構」，勞保局住院給付科領組林金龍說，除了削減一些大醫院的給付，挪給中、小型醫院以均分資源外，也把以往以「藥品、材料和檢查」為主要支出的結構，調整為以「醫療服務」為主。