Health Planning Commission: the increase of medical expenses in public hospitals should be controlled below 10%

According to Xinhua News Agency, before the end of September, the city reporter who comprehensively pushed forward the comprehensive reform of public hospitals and expanded the pilot of graded diagnosis and treatment to more than 85% learned from the regular press conference of the National Health and Family Planning Commission yesterday that, in 2017, China will issue 14 policy documents to promote the construction of five systems, including graded diagnosis and treatment, modern hospital management, universal medical insurance, drug supply guarantee and comprehensive supervision, so as to implement and assess responsibilities.

Since the comprehensive reform of public hospitals was comprehensively launched at the county level in 2015, how to maintain the public welfare of public hospitals, mobilize the enthusiasm of participating in medical reform, and at the same time ensure its sound development has attracted wide attention. “The most important thing is to straighten out the price of medical services and realize the income structure.” Liang Wannian, the full-time deputy director of the medical reform office of the State Council and the director of the Department of Physical reform of the State Health Planning Commission, said that we should pay attention to the reform of “three medical linkage” of medical treatment, medical insurance and medicine, and through breaking the “virtual fire” of supplementing medicine with medicine and reducing the price of medicine “, to make room for adjusting the price of medical services, and at the same time, let the medical insurance fund play the role of” leverage “in controlling fees.

The “key tasks of deepening medical and health system reform in 2017” issued by the General Office of the State Council issued “hard tasks” for medical control fees “. In 2017, the proportion of drugs in public hospitals (excluding Chinese herbal pieces) in the first four batches of 200 pilot cities dropped to about 30% overall, and the average growth rate of medical expenses in public hospitals nationwide was controlled below 10%.

How can an orderly medical order be formed to crack the “congestion disease” in large hospitals? Liang Wannian said that one of the key tasks of medical reform this year is to start various forms of medical consortium construction pilot, and all tertiary public hospitals should participate and play a leading role. “In order to return public hospitals to their functional orientation, an integrated service system with functional orientation as its core and mutual coordination should be gradually integrated by fighting alone and disorderly competition, form a scientific pattern of allocation of high-quality medical resources.”

Health care will continue to be the key area of financial investment. Song Qichao, deputy director of the social security department of the Ministry of Finance, said that in 2017, the national budget for medical and health expenditure was 1404.4 billion yuan, 4.4 times that of 2008 before the start of medical reform. In order to support the reform of public hospitals, the central government continued to arrange subsidy funds according to the standard of 3 million yuan subsidy for each county and 20 million yuan subsidy for each new pilot city.

It is reported that this year, China will also strengthen the supervision of medical insurance funds, strengthen the financial budget management of public hospitals, improve the efficiency of the use of public health funds, and ensure the safe, standardized and effective use of “life-saving money” of the masses.


According to Xinhua News Agency, before the end of September, the city reporter who comprehensively pushed forward the comprehensive reform of public hospitals and expanded the pilot of graded diagnosis and treatment to more than 85% yesterday learned from the regular press conference of the National Health and Family Planning Commission that 2017

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