National Health Insurance Bureau Cancels the List of Local Basic Medicines

On July 22nd, the National Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Opinions on Establishing a Management System for Medical Insurance Benefits List (Draft for Comment)." The document clarifies the details of the medical insurance payment details and proportions, as well as explains the medical insurance catalogue rules. It says that the local essential medicine system uses the national essential medicines catalogue based on one catalogue principle, and no longer adds local essential medicines to the basic medicines catalogue. This means that basic drug-related policies will be more favorable, and the entry of essential drugs will become more difficult.