Graded Diagnosis and Treatment Policy

Legal analysis: diseases are graded according to their severity, gravity, urgency, and ease of treatment, with different levels of medical institutions undertaking the treatment of different diseases, with common and frequent diseases being treated in grassroots hospitals, and difficult and critical diseases being treated in large hospitals. The implementation of graded diagnosis and treatment, two-way referral system, advocating the first primary diagnosis and treatment, by the village health office, township health centers to provide general common diseases, common diseases, chronic diseases, primary diagnosis and treatment services, difficult and serious illnesses and diseases of patients timely referral to the second and third-tier hospitals to receive diagnosis and treatment, the condition of the patients in remission or into the recovery period of the patients timely referral back to the grass-roots level to receive rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment.

Legal Basis: The Law of the People's Republic of China on Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Article 30 The State promotes the implementation of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system for basic medical services, guides patients with non-emergency conditions to first seek treatment at primary medical and health care institutions, implements the system of responsibility for the first diagnosis and referral review and approval of the system, and gradually establishes a mechanism for first diagnosis at the grass-roots level, bidirectional referrals, separation of the acute and chronic conditions, and up and down coordination, and connects the system to the basic medical insurance system.

The county government is also working on the establishment of a system of two-way referral and up-and-down linkage, which will be linked to the basic medical insurance system.

Local people's governments at and above the county level, according to the medical and health needs of their administrative regions, integrate government-organized medical and health resources in the region, and set up medical consortia and other coordinated and linked medical service cooperation mechanisms in accordance with local conditions. Encourage social forces to organize health care institutions to participate in medical services cooperation mechanism.