The National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) has released a notification with a focus on enhancing the standards for managing Basic Medical Insurance (BMI) payments for medical consumables. The notice indicates a further push towards the adoption of national BMI product codes to ensure uniformity across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expanding BMI Payment Management Scope<\/strong> Incorporating Essential and Affordable Medical Consumables<\/strong>
The goal is to include disposable medical consumables that are not directly part of the medical service projects’ price structure within the scope of BMI payment management regulations. This will involve the gradual development of generic naming rules for different categories of medical consumables, which will serve as the basis for BMI payments and management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The initiative aims to incorporate medical consumables that are clinically necessary, safe, effective, and reasonably priced into the BMI payment scope. Medical consumables with low clinical value or those with costs exceeding the affordability of funds and patients, as well as non-therapeutic rehabilitation devices, will not be covered by BMI in principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n