Next year, China will fully initiate the immediate settlement of medical treatment in different places in the province.

Business News Agency August 25. Based on the real-time settlement of medical expenses in the unified planning area this year, China will fully initiate immediate settlement work in different provinces within the province next year to gradually resolve the medical insurance premiums reported by the people. "and the "branch" problem.

This is what the reporter learned from the National Health Insurance Real-time Settlement and Social Security Card Application Experience Conference held in Beijing on the 24th.

The so-called immediate settlement of medical insurance costs is to allow the insured personnel to pay only the personally borne medical expenses when they go to the hospital. It is not necessary to pay any other fees before reimbursing the social security agencies, and the medical insurance agency and the medical institution will settle directly.

According to the working arrangements of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, before the end of this year, more than 80% of the coordinating regions within the provinces and autonomous regions should realize the instant settlement of hospitalization, serious illness, and outpatient expenses within the scope of the designated medical institutions for medical insurance; next year, all provinces and provinces within the province will be fully activated. The instant settlement work; the gradual settlement of inter-provincial medical expenses during the "Twelfth Five-Year" period.

Referring to the immediate settlement of medical treatment in different places in the province to be launched next year, Hu Xiaoyi, Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said: “Firstly, solve the settlement of hospital billing, and if necessary, extend it to outpatient clinics; first, resolve the participants to the provincial capital and Urban settlement of medical care will solve the problem of interconnection and intercommunication between cities across the province when conditions permit; in the initial stage, a certain number of medical institutions may be designated, and conditions will be gradually relaxed.”

According to the statistics from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, at present, most of the country's 86.7% of the co-ordinating regions have realized instant settlement of most inpatient medical expenses, and 67.2% of the co-ordinating regions have realized the instant settlement of personal account outpatient medical expenses.