The reporter learned today from the National Health Insurance Administration that the National Health Insurance Administration continues to improve the maternity insurance system, strengthen maternity service support, and help continuously improve the maternity support policy system. The health insurance department researched and improved medical insurance payment policies and issued the “Guidelines for Establishing Price Projects for Assisted Reproduction Medical Services”, which uniformly integrated assisted reproduction projects into 12 items, including egg retrieval and embryo cultivation, to standardize the formulation of assisted reproduction projects. Guide all regions to comprehensively consider factors such as fund affordability and standardized assisted reproduction technology, and gradually include appropriate therapeutic assisted reproduction service programs in the scope of medical insurance payments in accordance with procedures, reduce the burden of medical expenses for childbearing families, and resolve the “inability to give birth and are afraid to give birth” problems of families willing to have children. At present, 27 provinces, including Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, and Shandong, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have included assisted reproduction programs in medical insurance payments. From January to September this year, it benefited a total of 1.0313 million patients, with a fund expenditure of 1,957 billion yuan.

The reporter learned today from the National Health Insurance Administration that the National Health Insurance Administration continues to improve the maternity insurance system, strengthen maternity service support, and help continuously improve the maternity support policy system. The health insurance department researched and improved medical insurance payment policies and issued the “Guidelines for Establishing Price Projects for Assisted Reproduction Medical Services”, which uniformly integrated assisted reproduction projects into 12 items, including egg retrieval and embryo cultivation, to standardize the formulation of assisted reproduction projects. Guide all regions to comprehensively consider factors such as fund affordability and standardized assisted reproduction technology, and gradually include appropriate therapeutic assisted reproduction service programs in the scope of medical insurance payments in accordance with procedures, reduce the burden of medical expenses for childbearing families, and resolve the “inability to give birth and are afraid to give birth” problems of families willing to have children. At present, 27 provinces, including Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi, and Shandong, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have included assisted reproduction programs in medical insurance payments. From January to September this year, it benefited a total of 1.0313 million patients, with a fund expenditure of 1,957 billion yuan.