Comprehensive support of medical insurance for new crown epidemic prevention and control
The prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is the "bigger of the country".
On April 29, Hu Jinglin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Medical Insurance Bureau, published a signed article on the 1st page of "Study Times". And the general policy of "dynamic clearing", give full play to the supporting role of medical insurance in epidemic prevention and control, and contribute to the protection of people's life safety and health, and economic and social development.
Inoculation of the new crown vaccine is an important measure to prevent and control the epidemic. my country's medical insurance has been solving the problem of "worry" since the beginning of the new crown vaccination work.
At the beginning of the epidemic, my country promoted the research and development of vaccines with five technical routes in parallel.
In 2021, after a breakthrough in vaccine research and development, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core decided to launch the world's largest vaccination program. The medical insurance fund will pay for the vaccine and vaccination costs, and the government will provide subsidies to the medical insurance fund according to regulations.
As of April 2, 2022, my country has vaccinated 3.2 billion doses of the new crown vaccine, and the cost of the vaccine is more than 120 billion yuan, which is shared by the medical insurance fund and finance, and the cost of the vaccine is within the affordable range of the medical insurance fund.
The relevant person in charge of the National Medical Insurance Administration said that it is precisely because the vaccination funds and other aspects are guaranteed in place that among the world's most populous countries, my country has the fastest vaccination speed and the widest vaccination coverage.
On February 14, 2020, at the beginning of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, General Secretary Xi Jinping said at the 12th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform that the fundamental purpose of our establishment of the universal medical insurance system is to relieve all people's worries about medical care.
"This not only profoundly explains the original mission of medical insurance work, but also profoundly points out the role of medical insurance in epidemic prevention and control." Hu Jinglin said.
In the face of the sudden epidemic situation, in early 2020, the National Medical Insurance Bureau and relevant departments will study and formulate policies in a timely manner. All confirmed and suspected patients will be treated first and then settled. Special funds will be allocated to medical institutions that undertake the task of treating new coronary pneumonia to alleviate medical institutions. financial pressure, and timely settlement with medical institutions.
As of April this year, the National Medical Insurance Bureau had allocated a total of 20 billion yuan in special funds, and the settlement cost was 2.97 billion yuan.
In addition, the National Medical Insurance Administration has also reduced premiums in stages to help companies resume work and production.
In 2020, under the premise of ensuring the mid- and long-term balance of fund revenues and expenditures, local governments will be guided to halve the payment of employee medical insurance units, and a total of 165 billion yuan in premiums will be reduced in stages for 9.75 million insured units across the country, which strongly supports the resumption of work. Reproduction.
More than two years have passed, and my country's epidemic prevention and control work has entered the fourth stage of "scientific precision, dynamic clearing" of comprehensive comprehensive prevention and control.
On May 9, Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice Premier of the State Council, emphasized in a teleconference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council that large cities should establish a 15-minute walk for nucleic acid "sampling circles" to expand the scope and channels of monitoring.
At present, in order to quickly respond to the epidemic, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places are conducting normalized nucleic acid testing.
At the beginning of April, the Office of the National Medical Insurance Administration and the Medical Assistance Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic of the State Council jointly deployed a new round of price reductions for new crown nucleic acid testing across the country, requiring all provinces to reduce prices three times in 2021. Before April 8, the government-guided price for single-person nucleic acid testing in public medical institutions was lowered to no more than 28 yuan per person, and the government-guided price for multi-person mixed testing was lowered to no more than 8 yuan per person.
In addition, the National Medical Insurance Administration also clarified that registration fees for nucleic acid testing and outpatient consultation fees for antigen testing will be waived; when drugs related to the treatment of new coronary pneumonia are included in the scope of payment, they will be negotiated to reduce drug prices.
在支撑疫情防控工作的同时，国家医保局还将基金平衡压力转化为提高基金效益的动力，同步降低群众负担。国家集中带量采购累计降低药耗负担超5000亿元。此外，还持续加大欺诈骗保打击力度，2018年以来，累计检查定点医药机构超240万家次，处理近115万家次，曝光案情12万件，追回基金583亿元。
Hu Jinglin finally wrote that in the past two years, major strategic achievements have been made in the fight against the epidemic, which fully verified the supporting role of the medical security system with Chinese characteristics in responding to public health emergencies.
The national medical insurance system will continue to enrich and develop medical insurance strategies for responding to public health emergencies, further improve the medical treatment cost guarantee mechanism for major epidemics, and continuously promote the high-quality development of medical insurance. Prevention and control of "additional test questions".
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Liu Changrong