What is the hospital reserve fund?

It refers to a kind of fee that the hospital requires patients or their families to pay in advance as a deposit when seeing a doctor or staying in hospital. This deposit is mainly to cover possible medical expenses or other expenses, such as medicine expenses, examination expenses, operation expenses, hospitalization expenses, etc. The specific amount of the deposit depends on the policy of the hospital and the patient's medical treatment, and is generally determined according to the expected medical expenses. If the actual cost of the patient is lower than the deposit amount, the hospital will return the difference; If the cost is higher than the deposit amount, the patient needs to make up the difference.