China News Service, Taiyuan, December 16th (Reporter Fan Lifang) On the 16th, the reporter learned from the Taiyuan Blood Center that through the "one-stop" exemption model of "medical institution exemption mainly, network exemption supplemented", Taiyuan free blood donors And his immediate family members will be able to enjoy the preferential policy of direct reduction and exemption of clinical blood costs.
At present, the only source of blood for medical and clinical use is still voluntary donation by unpaid blood donors.
According to Bai Lin, director of the Taiyuan Blood Center, in the past, unpaid blood donors and their immediate family members needed to provide relevant identification and blood transfusion records to the center for reimbursement of blood after hospitalization. Blood donors hope that the reimbursement process can be simplified.
In order to get through the "last mile" of reimbursement of blood expenses, Taiyuan Blood Center held a kick-off meeting and system training course for direct reduction and exemption of clinical blood expenses for unpaid blood donors in Taiyuan.
According to the relevant notice from the Shanxi Provincial Health Commission Office, since the day of blood donation, blood donors donate more than 800ml of free blood for life.
From the day of blood donation, the spouse, parents, and children of the blood donor will use blood for free according to the amount of blood donated.
For unpaid blood donors who donate whole blood, when the amount of blood donation reaches 800ml, when they use whole blood, they can use the whole blood for free for unlimited time; if it does not reach 800ml, the blood will be used free of charge at 5 times the amount of blood donation within 5 years, and the blood donation amount after 5 years 2 times of free blood.
When blood donors use machine-collected platelets, each unit of machine-collected platelets is based on the amount of platelets that can be extracted from the donated whole blood. The blood will be used free of charge at 5 times the blood donation volume within 5 years, and twice the blood donation volume after 5 years.
When the immediate family members use whole blood, they can use the same amount of blood free of charge for unlimited time. When using the machine-collected platelets, the same amount of platelets that can be extracted from the donated whole blood is returned.
If the platelets collected by the donation machine reaches 1 unit, the unpaid blood donor himself can use any blood product for unlimited time and unlimited use. The spouse, parents, and children of the unpaid blood donor use the platelet collection machine for no time limit and the same amount is free. When using whole blood 800ml per platelet is converted into free blood for unlimited time in the province.
With the continuous increase in the amount of clinical blood used, the amount of reimbursement for clinical blood expenses has also increased year by year. In 2019, the amount of reimbursement for blood expenses for clinical use in Taiyuan reached 1,229, and the reimbursement amount has reached 1.259 million yuan.
Bai Lin said that Taiyuan City has been awarded the title of "National Advanced City for Free Blood Donation" for 11 consecutive 22 years from 1997 to the present, and is the only provincial capital city that has continuously won this honor.
At the same time, in 2019, the blood donation rate per 1,000 people in Taiyuan City reached 26.9‰, ranking first among major cities in the country.
At present, the Shanxi Provincial Health Commission has completed the construction of a provincial platform for the blood fee reduction and exemption system, and the Provincial Blood Center has also completed the purchase of software and hardware and data governance. Through the provincial platform of the province's exemption system, the information interconnection of blood donors between blood collection and supply institutions, blood collection and supply institutions and clinical blood medical institutions in provincial regions is realized. By then, the province's unpaid blood donors and their immediate family members will be able to directly waive clinical blood costs. (Finish)