On february 23, the ministry of social welfare published a new version of the medical inventory. This is a re-alignment of the health-care catalogue eight years later. What changes have been made to the new version of the catalogue, and what benefits will it bring to our people in shandong seeking medical treatment? Let's get to know。
The list of medicines covered by health insurance, which refers to the list of medicines covered by the state's basic medical, industrial and maternity insurance, can be said to be the most basic policy standard for the compensation of the population. As a result of this adjustment, a total of 2,535 western and chinese medicines were collected in the new catalogue, with 339 new medicines being added。
Although the new version of the catalogue will have to wait some more days for its official implementation in shandong, there are still a number of patients whose families have been asked about the reimbursement of medicines for the new catalogue at the health-care settlement window in the hospitals. The family lives in liu jing, in pife county, where there is an old disease number that is chronically ill。
The patient's family, liu jing: “we ordinary people look forward to it, and it is a good thing for us.”
As in the case of liu jing, the most important concern of patients everywhere is the 300 new medicines in the medical catalogue. At the request of the ministry of human welfare, these additional reimbursement drugs are also applied to participants in work injury insurance and maternity insurance. In addition to 91 children's medicines, new drug varieties are concentrated in such diseases as major diseases, mental illness, gynaecology, etc. The usual medications for cancer, hemophilia, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. Have been largely included in the catalogue or negotiation of medicines。
The director of the medical rehabilitation department of the people's hospital in pyife county, shandong: “a box of 1700 dollars for the replacement capsules for cancer treatment, which is covered by the reimbursement rate of 70 per cent, allows patients to use this expensive drug at a cost of $500, which greatly reduces their financial burden. People who could not afford precious medicines in the past were given wider access to them.”
The new catalogue has also increased support for innovative medicines, chinese medicine and ethnic medicine. As a pharmaceutical province, this adjustment brought the products of a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers in shandong into the new version of the catalogue, but at the same time a number of companies withdrew their medicines from the catalogue. Eight new drugs entered the inventory this time, but three have been withdrawn from the original list。
Suh lingzhong, professor, school of public health, shandong university: “the increase in the variety of chinese medicine over western medicine will promote the development of chinese medicine, especially the national medicine, on the one hand, and the investment of new medicines in enterprises on the other, and the innovative development of enterprises on the other.”
The journalists were informed by the provincial social welfare department that, in order to extend the benefits of the new version of the health insurance catalogue to the residents of shandong as soon as possible, the relevant departments are intensifying the revision of shandong's local health insurance catalogue at the request of the ministry of human welfare. In accordance with the schedule provided by the provincial social welfare offices, the inventory of local health insurance adjustments in shandong was established by 31 july this year, and the municipal health insurance information system was updated by 31 august. The new catalogue will be implemented after 1 september。
