China’s National Health Commission and China State Planner issued an Implementation Plan for Expanding and Enhancing Medical Rehabilitation and Nursing. The plan mandates improving multi-source payment systems and, through normal procedures, bringing

2026-10-08

China’s National Health Commission and China State Planner issued an Implementation Plan for Expanding and Enhancing Medical Rehabilitation and Nursing. The plan mandates improving multi-source payment systems and, through normal procedures, bringing rehabilitation and nursing services with proven efficacy and urgent public need into basic medical insurance coverage. It directs medical insurance payment reform: adopt disease-based (per-case) payments for short-stay inpatients receiving rehabilitation and nursing and pilot per-diem (bed-day) payments for long-stay inpatients. The plan also calls for refining special-case single-negotiation and other supporting mechanisms, and encourages commercial insurers to develop rehabilitation/nursing products coordinated with basic medical insurance, long-term care insurance and work-injury insurance.