What's different in Beijing hospitals after launching the new policy on health care reform?

April 8, according to media reports, the city's more than 3,600 medical institutions at the same time to start the separation of medicine comprehensive reform. The health care reform emphasizes the same city linkage, all the city's public medical institutions and voluntary participation in the health care reform of the social office of the medical insurance designated medical institutions are synchronized to switch the system. From 00:00 today, all public hospitals have abolished registration fees, consultation fees, and set up medical service fees.

Thousands of drugs all into the system:

April 7 evening, the city health planning commission in the middle of the office building a brightly lit, the site commander-in-chief received a report: all ready to work, please instruct! "Switch!" With an order, the hospital information system involved in health care reform debugging switch.

Beijing Morning Post reporter learned from the Municipal Health Planning Commission that, up to now, the city's 2605 medical institutions that need to transform the information system have completed the task. Medical service fees and 435 medical service items and thousands of drugs are all imported into the information system of medical institutions. Medical institutions have also completed testing of information systems and preparation of emergency plans.

From 0000 hours today, all public hospitals have canceled registration fees and consultation fees and set up medical service fees. To the third-level hospitals, for example, the medical service fee from 50 yuan to 100 yuan, Beijing medical insurance patients can not be subject to the starting line limit fixed reimbursement of 40 yuan. At the same time, drugs (except Chinese medicine tablets) to abolish the markup, 435 medical service prices are adjusted, prices rise and fall.

Normal outpatient clinic today to start the new policy:

In addition to the switching and debugging of the information system, as of April 5, more than 90% of the medical institutions to develop a new plan of action to improve health care services, large hospitals have been equipped with additional guides, promoters, and the rest of the health care institutions are in the process of formulating and improving.

In addition, the city's sunshine procurement platform for medicines has been activated, and medical institutions and drug distributors have been carrying out online procurement and supply of medicines one after another, with the number of medicines in stock being steadily increased.

It is reported that the first diagnosis and treatment after the settlement of the grass-roots institutions *** 114, six districts in the city of Dongcheng, Chaoyang, Fengtai, Xicheng grass-roots health service centers to participate in all of them, the Haidian and Shijingshan District, government-run health service centers to participate.

All hospitals participating in this healthcare reform will implement the new policies of the comprehensive reform of medicine separation during normal outpatient clinics this morning. At the same time, all medicines for clinical use in medical institutions are in stock and will be offered to patients at the new prices today.

In addition, a number of large hospitals, such as the North Medical Third Hospital, have developed emergency plans and completed emergency drill operations. Today, networkers, system operators, programmers, and application maintenance staff in hospitals will all be on duty 24 hours a day to provide technical support for the health care reform information system.

(Source: Xinhua News)