First in China! What signals did the merger of the National Health Commission and the medical insurance bureau send?

First in China! "Merger" of the health commission and the Medical Insurance Bureau

According to the official micro report of Huanghua Health Bureau, on the morning of August 24, the Huanghua health and Medical Security Bureau of Cangzhou Bohai new area was officially unveiled. Guo Feng, vice mayor of Huanghua municipal government of Cangzhou Bohai new area, and all leading groups, cadres and employees of Huanghua health and Medical Security Bureau of Cangzhou Bohai new area participated in the activity.

Huanghua city is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province, which is managed by Cangzhou City. The establishment of the city's Health Bureau has merged the functions of the health and medical insurance systems to form a new Department, which is very eye-catching in the context of the new medical reform. Insiders are also speculating: does this herald the corresponding adjustment of the medical insurance and health system in the next step?

According to the official micro report of Huanghua Health Bureau, Vice Mayor Guo Feng of the city pointed out in his speech that the health insurance team is a cohesive, fighting and winning team. In recent years, it has made good achievements in epidemic prevention and control and specific business work, which has been fully affirmed by leaders at all levels. It has been notified and praised by the general office of the State Council. Leaders at the provincial and Cangzhou municipal levels have made many special investigations, The work of health insurance has taken the lead in Cangzhou.

Emphasis: the new name means a new mission, and the new starting point means a new journey. It is renamed as Huanghua health and Medical Security Bureau of Cangzhou Bohai new area, which indicates that in the future work, we will pay more attention to the health needs of the people, pay more attention to the health and nutrition of the people, and pay more attention to changing the healthy lifestyle of the people. We will take this as a new opportunity to perform new responsibilities and assume new missions, And make new contributions to safeguarding the health of the broad masses of the people.

Requirements: all cadres and employees should deeply understand and grasp the new situation and new requirements of health and medical security work, match standards and tables, and strive to push health and medical insurance work to a new level, create new achievements and continue new brilliance with a first-class work style, first-class service, first-class team and first-class contributions, a fuller work enthusiasm, a more positive work attitude and a more pragmatic work style!

Liu Shuang, Secretary of the Party group and director of the Huanghua health and Medical Security Bureau of Cangzhou Bohai new area, presided over the unveiling ceremony and said: leaders at all levels fully affirmed the work of health insurance, placed new hopes and put forward new requirements for future work. Under the strong leadership of the municipal Party Committee and government, all comrades must closely focus on the central work of the city, and take full care of the life, health and safety of the people as their own responsibility, Roll up your sleeves and work hard, fill in your report card by yourself, so as to return the trust of the municipal Party committee and the municipal government and the support of all walks of life with better work results.

What is the signal?

In 2018, the state adjusted the new organizational structure, and merged the functions related to medical insurance funds, medical consumables and medical service price management that were originally scattered in the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of human resources and social security, the health and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of civil affairs, and so on into the newly established national medical insurance bureau, which is called "super medical insurance bureau" by the industry.

The former national health and Family Planning Commission was adjusted to the National Health Commission. The medical insurance bureau was gradually responsible for the bidding and procurement of pharmaceutical consumables. In the year of its establishment, the latter organized "4 + 7 centralized procurement", which completely changed all aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. Now, the centralized volume procurement has gradually covered insulin, Chinese patent medicine and biological medicine from chemical drugs. After seven batches and eight rounds of centralized drug procurement and two batches of high-value consumables, 260 billion yuan of medical insurance funds have been saved.

In addition, in 2018, the State Food and drug administration was merged into the newly established state administration of market supervision. Under the concept of "big market supervision", it unified the pace of supervision and continued to play its drug registration and various regulatory functions.

Now, the newly established health and Medical Security Bureau in Huanghua city should integrate the functions of health and medical insurance from the name, and health comes first and medical insurance comes after. It seems that the name also reveals some new breath.

In fact, the announcements on the official website of Huanghua health and Medical Insurance Bureau show that the name of the Bureau began to appear on the official website at least on August 2, 2022.

With the deepening of the medical reform work, the deployment of all work will change with the change of the situation. Although Huanghua city is only a county-level city, its new situation deserves the attention of people in the industry.

(the article comes from the Internet)