Can finances solve the treatment costs of patients with new coronary pneumonia in Xiangyang City?

Can the finance solve the part of the personal burden of treatment costs for confirmed and suspected patients? What other financial protection measures does the city have for epidemic prevention and control?

The Xiangyang City Finance Department coordinates the dispatch of funds and implements safeguard policies to ensure that people are not deterred from seeking medical treatment for fear of costs, and that medical treatment and epidemic prevention and control are not affected by financial problems:

1. The part of the treatment costs of confirmed and suspected patients that is borne by the individual will be safeguarded by the finance. To participate in the basic medical insurance diagnosed patients, suspected patients incurred medical costs, in the basic medical insurance, medical insurance for major diseases, medical assistance, etc., according to the provisions of the payment, the individual part of the burden of finance to be guaranteed; not to participate in the basic medical insurance diagnosed patients, suspected patients incurred medical costs, but also by the same level of finance to be guaranteed. At present, the municipal finance has been in advance with the municipal health insurance department to pre-allocate urban designated medical treatment institutions health insurance fund 32.3 million yuan, the individual burden of financial subsidies of 1.05 million yuan.

2. The epidemic prevention and control materials and equipment purchases are fully guaranteed. As of February 13, the city's financial resources at all levels for the epidemic prevention and control materials and equipment purchase funds 103 million yuan, including the purchase of rescue equipment, emergency vehicles, testing equipment, protective supplies and other urgently needed prevention and control materials and equipment.

3. Creating favorable working and living conditions for medical personnel. Temporary work subsidies and one-time condolence payments for medical personnel have been implemented, protective conditions for medical personnel have been improved, and the treatment environment in designated medical institutions has been optimized, and all the relevant funds required have been allocated.

4. Open up a "green channel" for the procurement of epidemic prevention materials and equipment. The establishment of government procurement "green channel", the implementation of epidemic prevention and control materials and equipment to organize their own procurement, to ensure that the supply of time, as soon as possible to put into use.

5. The implementation of prevention and control of key financial support policies. The central, provincial industry, education, finance, agriculture and other key prevention and control of financial support policies to study the timely implementation of the operational approach to ensure that the higher policy as soon as possible to play a role in the benefits.