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The Beijing Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau recently issued a notice in conjunction with the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.Starting from September 21, Beijing's public medical institutions have added 14 new medical service price items, such as anti-aquaporin antibody testing, and adjusted 189 medical service price items, such as cold and wet compresses. This move will optimize the income structure of medical institutions and reduce the cost of seeing a doctor for patients.

Medical service price items are the pricing units used by medical institutions to charge for medical services such as surgery fees, treatment fees, and diagnosis and treatment fees. The 14 newly added medical service price items include:Anti-aquaporin antibody assay, anti-deamidated gliadin antibody assay, anti-human tissue transglutaminase antibody assay, glial fibrillary acidic protein assay, brain-specific protein product 9.5 assay, pre-lacrimal recess approach for skull base lesion resection, percutaneous intravascular shock wave energy calcification fragmentation, supra-arcuate artery transposition, gastrojejunostomy, prone ventilation therapy, femtosecond laser-assisted operation, medical 3D modeling, medical 3D model printing, and medical 3D guide printing.

189 medical service price items such as cold wet compress therapy will be adjusted, and 272 current related medical service price items such as percutaneous superior vena cava filter removal will be abolished simultaneously.56 newly added medical service items, including quantitative detection of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia antibodies, have been set up with unified prices and clear reimbursement categories for basic medical insurance and work-related injury insurance. Citizens can check the newly added and adjusted medical service price items and related policies on the official website of the Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau.

The Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau requires that public medical institutions should strictly follow the price policy regulations and clinical diagnosis and treatment standards to provide services and charge fees to patients, and should not charge fees that are not listed; establish and improve the internal price management system, and strictly regulate their own price behavior. Public medical institutions should also strictly implement the medical service price disclosure system, and publicly display medical service items, prices, and service standards in a prominent location at the service site through various means, and implement relevant regulations such as hospitalization fee lists and clear price tags.It is worth noting that medical diagnosis and treatment technologies that are prohibited from clinical use by the national or municipal health administrative authorities are not subject to the city’s price policies.

Source: Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Chai Rong

Editor Wang Qiong

Process Editor: Ma Xiaoshuang