Health and Family Planning Commission and Ministry of Commerce: foreign hospitals will soon be incorporated into medical insurance

Source: China Economic Net, China news network, September 23, 2014, the press office of the Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on "streamlining administration and delegating power to deepen the reform of the administrative examination and approval system" Qiu Lixin, deputy director of the Department of foreign investment management, said at the meeting: we are studying whether foreign hospitals are included in the medical insurance and other issues Qiu Lixin said: "whether foreign hospitals can be included in the medical insurance, including doctors and related medical facilities, and whether drugs can be the same as domestic hospitals, we and the health and family planning commission are studying these issues." Qiu Lixin said that China is a big country, and there are many medical and patient groups, including high consumption groups and ordinary patients Under the premise of ensuring the basic medical needs, the whole medical system should introduce various subjects, including foreign investment, to provide different services for different consumption groups and different patients After the establishment of foreign-funded hospitals, whether foreign-funded hospitals can be included in medical insurance, including doctors and related medical facilities, and whether drugs can be the same as domestic hospitals are under study Qiu Lixin said that while further promoting foreign-funded hospitals to provide different services for different consumers, more importantly, he hoped that foreign-funded hospitals could not only supplement domestic hospitals, but also play a role in promoting competition by introducing advanced management mode Strive to be able to properly solve, so that foreign-funded hospitals can better serve a wider range of patients It is understood that on August 27, the national health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued a notice on the pilot work of establishing a wholly foreign-owned hospital, allowing foreign investors to establish wholly foreign-owned hospitals in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan through new construction or merger Qiu Lixin said that the opening of seven provinces and cities continues the general policy of active, prudent and gradual opening up In 2010, with the implementation of CEPA and ECFA, it was first opened to Hong Kong and Macao investors, and then to Taiwan investors They can set up wholly-owned hospitals in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan This time, seven cities were chosen, and Beijing and Tianjin were added according to the previous pace of opening up Because Beijing and Tianjin have the foundation of opening up, and they are also relatively high-level regions of foreign investment and development After their successful experience, they can be better extended to other places in the future