Medicare Benefits Chronic Disease Patients

 In order to further reduce the economic burden of patients and facilitate access to medical care, our hospital has actively responded to the spirit of Liaocheng and Linqing New Agricultural Cooperation (NAC) documents, and reimbursement of outpatient expenses for NAC patients with chronic illnesses can be incorporated into the hospital. on January 1, 2013, our hospital officially opened the operation of the network. Since the implementation of this policy in our hospital, nearly 1,000 patients with chronic diseases have enjoyed the benefits of this policy.

   Reimbursement of outpatient medical expenses for chronic diseases is an important supplement to the continuous improvement of the new rural cooperative medical care. At present, the chronic diseases reimbursed under the NRCM include radiotherapy and chemotherapy for malignant tumors; hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis for chronic renal failure; antirejection therapy for organ transplantation; aplastic anemia; leukemia; systemic lupus erythematosus (with one of the complications of heart, lung, kidney, liver and nervous system); rheumatoid arthritis (in the active stage); diabetes mellitus (with one of the complications of heart, kidney, liver and nervous system); hypertension; diabetes mellitus (with one of the complications of heart, kidney, liver and nervous system); and diabetes mellitus. One of the complications); hypertension III (with one of the heart, brain, kidney complications); cerebrovascular disease recovery with clinical indications and life can not take care of themselves; cirrhosis ascites; tuberculosis (in the course of treatment); myasthenia gravis; cardio-cerebral vascular disease intervention after anti-rejection therapy; Parkinson's disease; hemophilia and other 16 kinds.

   According to Chen Dianhong, Director of the Medical Insurance Office, all local NPC chronic disease patients can be instantly settled in our hospital. In other words, they can get reimbursement at any time when they get medication, which provides more convenient services for patients. For the co-ordination of the scope of medication, where in our hospital to take medication only need to pay the non-reimbursable part of the amount of medical fees, the reimbursement rate of 50%, the annual ceiling line of 10,000 yuan, and effectively reduce the economic burden of patients. In order to better serve patients in neighboring areas, our hospital is ready to implement the new rural cooperative chronic disease network settlement with Gaotang County. In addition, the Liaocheng area's new rural cooperative patients who are hospitalized in our hospital can enjoy the instant reimbursement policy during hospitalization, and all those who meet the conditions can go to the local health bureau to apply for the chronic disease procedures and enjoy the outpatient reimbursement for chronic diseases of the new rural cooperative.

  Our hospital carries out outpatient reimbursement compensation for chronic diseases in strict accordance with the management system to ensure reasonable reimbursement, efficient use of funds, to meet the needs of patients with chronic diseases for treatment and medication, and more importantly, to reduce the economic burden of patients, which greatly facilitates the majority of the NNHB patients with chronic diseases, and has won the unanimous praise of the majority of patients.

（王子英  陈殿红）