Targeted drugs medical insurance can be reimbursed

Legal analysis: targeted drugs can be reimbursed, the State Medical Security Bureau has included 17 kinds of anticancer drugs into the national basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance drug catalog category B range, including: azacitidine, cetuximab, afatinib and so on.

Legal basis: The Social Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 2: The state establishes a social insurance system for basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, work-injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, etc., and guarantees the right of citizens to obtain material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in the event of old age, illness, work-related injuries, unemployment and maternity, etc. The State has also established a social insurance system to protect the rights of citizens to obtain material assistance from the state and society.

Article 26 The standards of treatment for basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the State.

Article 28 Medical expenses that conform to the basic medical insurance drug catalog, diagnostic and therapeutic items, standards of medical service facilities, as well as those for emergency and rescue shall be paid from the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with the state regulations.