National Health and Family Planning Commission: the reimbursement proportion of NCMS hospitalization expenses will be increased by more than 5 percentage points this year.

Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, July 5 (Liang Jun and Li Chunyan) Li Bin, minister in charge of the State Health and Family Planning Commission, said at the national work conference on health and poverty alleviation held in Lanzhou, Gansu Province on the 5th that the proportion of reimbursement for hospitalization expenses within the scope of China's NCMS policy will be increased by more than 5 percentage points this year.

Li Bin said that according to the data of the filing card set up by the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, 42% of the rural poor in China return to poverty due to illness, and in some places they even return to poverty as high as 50%. Among various causes of poverty, poverty caused by illness ranks first in all regions.

According to reports, at present, China's new rural cooperative medical system has covered more than 97% of rural residents, and the proportion of reimbursement for outpatient and hospitalization expenses within the scope of the policy has reached about 50% and 75% respectively, and the ability of the universal health insurance system to prevent serious diseases and draw the bottom line has been further enhanced.

"the proportion of reimbursement for hospitalization expenses within the scope of the new rural cooperative medical system policy will be increased by more than 5 percentage points this year, and the burden of medical expenses on rural poor and seriously ill patients will be effectively reduced by reducing the starting line of serious illness insurance and increasing the proportion of reimbursement." Li Bin said.

Li Bin said: in the next step, China will strive to achieve full coverage of the NCMS, insurance for serious diseases and medical assistance for serious and serious diseases to the poor in rural areas, and the policy of NCMS and insurance for serious diseases will be skewed towards the poor in rural areas. and combined with classified treatment, "group" counterpart assistance, graded diagnosis and treatment, prevention and health care and other ways to promote the implementation of health poverty alleviation projects to achieve practical results. (end)