医疗欠费是病人接受医疗服务,即占有医护人员的劳动及消耗医疗物化劳动时,未能及时支付相应费用所形成的一种经济关系[1]。随着我国医疗保障制度改革进程的加快和医疗市场竞争的日益激烈,医疗欠费越来越成为困扰医院发展的一个不可忽视的因素,很大程度上影响着医院的服务质量与 Medical arrears are an economic relationship formed when patients receive medical services, that is, they occupy medical workers’ labor and consume medical materialized labor, failing to pay corresponding fees in time.[1] With the acceleration of the reform of China’s medical security system and the increasingly fierce competition in the medical market, medical arrears have increasingly become a non-negligible factor that has plagued the development of hospitals, and has greatly affected the quality of hospital services.