Six new crown treatment items, including prone ventilation therapy, are reimbursable, and Hunan adjusts the price of medical services related to new crown infections

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Today, the Hunan Provincial Medical Security Bureau issued a document announcing the “Notice on New and Revised Medical Service Price Items Related to New Coronavirus Infections” (hereinafter referred to as “Notice”), deciding to add six new medical service price items related to new coronavirus infections and revise eight existing medical service price items. Effective January 15, 2023, the implementation.

The “Notice” points out that, according to the “new coronavirus infection treatment program (trial version 10)” and other recommended treatment services, the new “prone ventilation treatment” and “Internet first consultation” and other six new coronavirus infection-related medical services price items. Project price for the province’s public medical institutions maximum guide price, in March 31, 2023 temporarily into the medical insurance A reimbursement.

The notice requires that medical institutions to carry out “Internet first” medical service price items, should be based on the list of medical institutions licensed by the competent industry departments to open for new coronavirus infections, and provide services for patients with symptoms related to new coronavirus infections, in accordance with the “Guidelines for the Treatment of New Coronavirus Infected Patients at Home”. The following is a list of medical institutions that are permitted to be open for novel coronavirus infection. New coronavirus infection-related symptoms of Internet follow-up services, the implementation of the “Internet follow-up” project price policy, not in accordance with the price of the first consultation fees charged.

The Notice specifies that for the first visit of patients with new coronavirus infection and suspected symptoms in medical institutions that rely on Level 2 or lower entities to carry out “Internet+” medical services, the costs of the first visit will be included in the special coverage for emergency outpatient services and will be reimbursed according to the special coverage policy for offline emergency outpatient services; for patients who rely on Level 3 entities to carry out “Internet+” medical services, the costs of the first visit will be reimbursed according to the special coverage policy for offline emergency outpatient services. For the first visit of patients with new coronavirus infection and suspected symptoms that occurred in medical institutions that rely on tertiary entities to provide “Internet+” medical services, the first visit will be reimbursed according to the existing general outpatient reimbursement policy and will not be included in the special outpatient coverage policy.

In addition, the “Notice” simultaneously revised the price of eight existing medical services items.

The “Notice” requires that all types of medical institutions at all levels should strictly in accordance with the provisions of the price policy and clinical diagnosis and treatment specifications to provide services to patients and charges, establish and improve the internal price management system, and strictly regulate the price of medical services; strict implementation of the medical services price announcement system, the implementation of a good list of inpatient costs, the price tag and other related provisions. Medical security departments at all levels to effectively strengthen the management of medical services prices, and urge medical institutions to strictly implement the provisions of the province’s medical services price policy, in the implementation process, and timely identification and resolution of medical services price policy and management of new situations, new problems.