Objective: To analyze the research status and development trend of medical service price reform in China from 2001 to 2022. Methods: Taking "China National Knowledge Infrastructure" as the data source, selecting "medical service price" or "medical price management" or "medical price adjustment" or "medical service pricing" as search terms, 492 valid documents were finally obtained. The time series distribution and journal sources of documents were counted by frequency. Taking CiteSpace 6.1. R1 and VOSviewer1.6.18 as tools to draw the author and institution cooperation maps, keyword co-occurrence clusters and emergent maps. Bicomb and SPSS 25.0 software were used to analyze keywords on a multidimensional scale. Results: The overall volume of medical service price reform in China was increasing with literature published in 70 journals. "Public hospitals" , "medical service", and "compensation mechanisms" are the top three frequently cited words. The reform has gone through three stages: the implementation stage, the straightening stage, and the deepening stage, focusing on medical service pricing, standardized management of medical service items, and dynamic adjustment of medical service prices. Conclusion: Research hotspots continue to change, while attention continues to rise and content continues to deepen. Dynamic adjustment and medical consumption linkage are research hotspots.