Yunnan Province implements the system of reminder of over-prescription of medicines by physicians

From Kunming Medical University First Affiliated Hospital was informed that the hospital recently received a notice from the Yunnan Provincial Medical Insurance Center, from October 1, Yunnan Province will implement a cumulative over-prescription information system for physicians to remind the system, the insured person per prescription in principle should not exceed 30 days of dosage. From January 1, 2019, the provincial medical insurance settlement information system will handle the cumulative over-prescription at its own expense.
the head of Yunnan Provincial Medical Insurance Center explained that the cumulative over-prescription of drugs to doctors information system reminder, is to allow doctors to fully grasp the patient's historical medical records, to ensure reasonable and safe drug use. To avoid doctors in the patient's past medical treatment without the knowledge of repeated prescription, over-prescription, resulting in waste of medical resources and loss of medical insurance funds. The person in charge explained that the health care system will be in accordance with the maximum amount allowed in the drug instructions for over-alerting, not to limit the prescription of medicines by doctors and patients.
the provincial health care center extended the maximum prescription to 30 days to make it easier for patients to prescribe the drug, the official said. Insured patients can be pre-prescription, as long as the remaining amount of previous prescriptions plus the total amount of this prescription does not exceed 37 days of dosing, do not make a cumulative over-prescription warning. The medical insurance information system counts the amount of medicines given by the insured in all fixed-point medical institutions, and pushes the medical records to the physician as a reference for the prescription of the medicine. Where there is a cumulative over-prescription, the system will automatically remind the physician of the over-prescription of the quantity. Physicians interpret and modify prescriptions based on reminders to avoid over-prescribing. (Health News)