good news! 13 provinces lowered the price of nucleic acid testing and can be paid by medical insurance in many places
China-Singapore Jingwei Client, January 30th (Meng Zhang) During the Spring Festival this year, nucleic acid testing became a "pass" for returning home.
A few days ago, in order to further normalize the epidemic prevention and control work and reduce the burden of the people's testing costs, the price of new coronavirus nucleic acid testing has been lowered.
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The National Health Commission speaks: Reduce the cost of personal nucleic acid testing
On January 27, at a press conference on the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, Zeng Yixin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, said that it is necessary to actively explore and reduce the cost of nucleic acid testing.
On the same day, the National Health Commission issued the "Notice on Orderly Conducting Nucleic Acid Testing for Mass Travel during the Spring Festival."
The notice requires that all localities should actively explore ways of centralized procurement and purchase consumables such as nucleic acid testing reagents and protective equipment in bulk to reduce the cost of nucleic acid testing.
The local government of the manufacturer of testing reagents and ancillary products should take multiple measures to improve the service to the company, and try its best to adopt relevant supporting measures to help the company reduce production costs.
It is necessary to sign purchase service agreements with public hospitals and third-party testing agencies that carry out nucleic acid testing business in advance to exchange prices for quantities and reduce the price of a single nucleic acid test.
According to the principle of voluntariness, nucleic acid testing for people returning home during the Spring Festival can use 10 mixed and 1 mixed mining technology to carry out testing, reduce the burden of personal testing costs, and issue testing reports in time.
Nucleic acid testing costs in multiple provinces are lowered to 80 yuan
Before the end of 2020, more than half of the provinces in the country, including Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Chongqing, Xinjiang, Shanxi, and Henan, have adjusted the price of new coronavirus nucleic acid testing in public hospitals to a maximum price of 80 yuan per person.
A reporter from Sino-Singapore Jingwei found that since 2021, public institutions in 13 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Sichuan, Fujian, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Hainan, Qinghai, Zhejiang, and Tibet have reduced nucleic acid testing fees.
In 9 provinces, the maximum price of single-sample public institution nucleic acid testing was lowered to 80 yuan/time.
According to Hainan regulations, starting from January 26, the maximum guide price for Hainan's new coronavirus nucleic acid test (including the price of nucleic acid testing and the cost of in vitro diagnostic kits) has been adjusted from 160 yuan/person to 98 yuan/person.
Tibet has made it clear that starting from January 29, the price of nucleic acid testing in Tibet's tertiary public medical institutions will be reduced from 200 yuan/person-time to 80 yuan/person-time, and second-level and lower public medical institutions will be 72 yuan/person (including testing reagents).
Sichuan pointed out that starting from January 28, the price of nucleic acid testing in Sichuan provincial-administered third-level public medical institutions will be reduced from the current 120 yuan/person-time to 80 yuan/person-time, and the price of projects in provincial-administered second-level and below public medical institutions will be reduced from the current 100 yuan/person-time. Lowered to 72 yuan/person, the above price includes the price of nucleic acid detection reagents, and is the highest price limit of public medical institutions in the province.
Guizhou mentioned that starting from January 26, Guizhou disease control testing institutions and medical institutions will adjust the maximum charge for nucleic acid testing of the new coronavirus to 50 yuan per person (not including testing reagents), and testing reagents will be sold at zero markup on the purchase price.
In addition, the price of mixed testing varies from place to place.
In comparison, the cost of mixed testing in Qinghai is higher than that in other provinces, with 5 samples mixed testing at 40 yuan per person, and 10 samples mixed testing at 30 yuan per person; Shaanxi and Fujian have the lowest cost of 10 samples at only 15 yuan; The cost of mixed testing for 10 samples in Beijing, Tianjin, and Zhejiang was adjusted to 20 yuan.
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Nucleic acid testing costs in Beijing, Shaanxi, Baoding and other places are included in medical insurance
As early as June 16, 2020, the National Medical Insurance Administration issued the "Notice on Cooperating to Further Improve the New Coronavirus Detection Capability", requesting the payment of medical insurance.
On January 29, at a press conference on the prevention and control of the epidemic in Beijing, Zhang Hua, deputy director of the Beijing Health Commission, introduced that the current regulations will continue to be implemented for people who "must be inspected," and the medical insurance fund and finance will share the cost of testing.
For the "willing to do all the inspections", the classification management of medical insurance and non-medical insurance groups is implemented. The testing costs of medical insurance personnel in this city are included in the scope of basic medical insurance payment and reimbursed according to the basic medical insurance policies for urban employees and urban and rural residents. Individuals after medical insurance reimbursement The self-pay part shall be borne by the individual.
Shaanxi has made it clear that starting from February 1st, the new crown virus testing items will be included in the scope of medical insurance payment as required.
Baoding requires that from January 29, during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, dialysis treatment for outpatient serious illnesses for urban employees and urban and rural residents insured by basic medical insurance, outpatient radio (chemical) therapy for malignant tumors, and childhood leukemia for treatment of major illnesses for urban and rural residents Outpatient treatment, renal dialysis outpatient treatment for end-stage renal disease, the "new coronavirus nucleic acid test" and "coronavirus (mutant strain) antibody test" items are included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement.
Nucleic acid detection needs to pay attention to these matters
The disease control department reminded that two hours before the nucleic acid test, try to avoid eating, so as not to cause vomiting, and to avoid food residues in the pharynx, causing errors in the test results.
At the same time, do not drink water, smoke, drink alcohol, or chew gum for 30 minutes before sampling; reduce swallowing and try not to clear your throat during the preliminary examination.
In addition, when the throat swab was collected, the subject tilted his head back and made an "ah" sound, which helped to expose the throat.
During the collection process, the subject should cooperate with the collection personnel to relax and breathe deeply.
Hand hygiene should be paid attention to before and after the nucleic acid test. When waiting in line, personnel should wear masks, do not gather together, and keep a distance of more than one meter.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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