China's National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) said the timing is
ripe to issue a National Basic Medical Insurance Medical Service Items Catalog.
With the national medical service pricing project guidelines being established
and implemented, names and definitions of chargeable medical service items are
being standardized and 29 provinces have aligned their provincial medical
service payment scopes. To strengthen a unified national market, improve
insurance fund efficiency and enhance fairness, the NHSA plans to draft the
national catalog and will first implement it for patients receiving care outside
their home province, then progressively extend it nationwide, noting existing
inter‑provincial differences in payment scope.
