On the afternoon of September 4, the State Council Information Office held a regular State Council policy briefing to introduce the relevant situation of the "Regulations on the Administration of Social Insurance" and answer questions from reporters.
According to Huang Huabo, deputy director of the National Medical Security Administration, since the beginning of this year, the National Medical Insurance Administration has implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and made every effort to promote the implementation, implementation, and implementation of the direct settlement policy for medical treatment across provinces and places, and has made some new progress. It can be summarized as "one new breakthrough, two new improvements".
The coverage of cross-provincial network designated medical institutions has been further expanded, and new breakthroughs have been made in the number of national network designated medical institutions, the number of settlements and settlement amounts. As of the end of August this year, the number of designated cross-provincial medical institutions across the country has reached 475,100, an increase of 45.33% over the end of last year. At the same time, in the first eight months of this year, the total number of inter-provincial direct settlements for 5 kinds of outpatient chronic diseases such as hospitalization, general outpatient clinics and hypertension and diabetes exceeded 70 million, reaching 72.1671 million person-times, reducing the advance payment of 97.21 billion Yuan, compared with the same period last year, increased by 245.1% and 91.77% respectively.