Hong Kong Elderly Health Care Voucher Pilot Expansion in the Greater Bay Area
5 new general hospitals including Zhongshan First Hospital and 2 dental hospitals were added
Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Hui and correspondents Peng Fuxiang and Liang Jiayun reported: Recently, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government announced the "Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Plan" to expand the scope of application of the elderly health care voucher to 5 new general hospitals and 2 dental clinics. Hospital.
Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and the Nansha Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongshan First Hospital Nansha Campus") were selected into the first batch of pilot lists, and services are expected to be launched in the second half of this year.
It is understood that the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme is a private primary medical service launched by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
The service targets are Hong Kong elders who are over 65 years old and hold a valid Hong Kong identity card or a "Certificate of Exemption from Registration" issued by the Immigration Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The amount of health care vouchers each eligible elder can receive each year is HK$2,000. The unused amount of health care vouchers each year can be accumulated for use in subsequent years, with an accumulation limit of HK$8,000.
The Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau stated that this pilot program of Elderly Health Care Vouchers in the Greater Bay Area will bring four breakthroughs: for the first time, it will go beyond Hong Kong and Shenzhen to cover the core of the Greater Bay Area; for the first time, non-Hong Kong-funded mainland tertiary medical institutions will participate; for the first time, Private medical institutions are participating; for the first time, dental professional medical institutions are participating.
It is understood that the selection of these seven medical institutions has been carefully planned, with the goal of achieving full coverage in the Pearl River Delta and taking care of the elderly Hong Kong residents living in the Greater Bay Area.
According to reports, in recent years, Zhongshan No. 1 Hospital has treated thousands of Hong Kong patients every year.
Last year alone, the hospital received more than 6,000 Hong Kong patients, more than 2,500 of whom were elderly people over 65 years old.
In addition, the Nansha Campus of Zhongshan First Hospital, which also joined the pilot program, began operations at the end of March last year, and has also provided convenient medical services to more Hong Kong patients.
"In order to better serve the elderly in Hong Kong, the hospital has also specially set up a service point for Hong Kong and Macao residents. This service point is located in the outpatient service center to facilitate Hong Kong elderly to obtain information and quickly adapt to the medical treatment process." said Wang Zilian, deputy director of Zhongshan First Hospital. , the hospital will continue to conduct relevant training and docking work with the Hong Kong Medical and Health Bureau, including the docking of the medical voucher reimbursement system. Currently, specialized personnel have been arranged for docking and are fully prepared.
It is understood that the expansion of the use of Hong Kong Elderly Health Care Vouchers to a number of tertiary hospitals in the Greater Bay Area marks the spread of Hong Kong's medical benefits to the entire Greater Bay Area and is an important development in cross-border medical care.