Four departments including the National Health Commission, the National Medical Insurance Administration, the State Administration of Financial Supervision, and the State Food and Drug Administration jointly issued the "Notice on Further Promoting Oral Medical Services and Security Management", clarifying that it will further standardize oral diagnosis and treatment practices and improve Oral medical insurance level.
The notice clarifies that local health administrative departments at all levels should incorporate oral medical services into the overall planning and layout of local medical resources for overall consideration, strive to promote the construction of dental departments in general hospitals and dental specialist medical institutions, and strictly implement various medical system specifications. Standardized dental diagnosis and treatment services.
In terms of supply guarantee management of dental consumables, the notice clarifies that all localities must standardize and implement provincial-level online procurement of dental consumables, implants, orthodontics and other consumables, and actively implement them on a provincial (regional, municipal) basis or in the form of cross-provincial alliances. Carry out centralized procurement of dental consumables to promote openness and transparency in prices of dental consumables and squeeze out price moisture.
At the same time, the procurement of dental consumables in public medical institutions should be managed uniformly by the medical institution, and consumable supply companies should be selected openly and fairly in strict accordance with procedures. Dental and related medical staff are not allowed to engage in purchasing medical consumables on their own, and are not allowed to use medical consumables purchased and supplied by non-medical consumables management departments.
According to the notice, local medical insurance departments, in accordance with relevant regulations, fully implement the whole-process price regulation goals for dental medical services, and carry out special management of the prices of implant implants, dental crown implants, bone grafting surgeries, etc. in public medical institutions. For technically difficult and high-risk projects such as full dental arch restoration and implantation, an appropriate gap from conventional dental implant surgery is allowed, and will subsequently be included in the overall management of local dynamic adjustment mechanisms.
The notice requires that, on the basis of the affordability of the fund, eligible therapeutic medical services and medical consumables shall be included in the payment scope of basic medical insurance according to procedures, and commercial insurance shall be supported and encouraged to play an active role in reducing the economic burden of the masses.