National Medical Insurance Administration: The cost of normalized nucleic acid testing shall be borne by local governments

Today, the head of the relevant department of the National Medical Insurance Administration said in an interview with CCTV News that the cost of normalized nucleic acid testing is borne by local governments.

Source: CCTV News

Previously, on May 22, the National Medical Insurance Administration asked all localities to reduce the cost of nucleic acid testing for the new coronavirus by June 10, single-person single-testing to no more than 16 per person RMB, and multi-person mixed inspection is reduced to no more than RMB 5 per person.

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The relevant person in charge of the National Medical Insurance Bureau answered the question about the normalized nucleic acid testing fee that has been paid great attention by online public opinion recently:

“In accordance with the “Guiding Opinions of the State Council’s Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for Response to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic on Doing a Good Job in the Normalized Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic”, “On Accelerating the Implementation of the Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Testing” Opinions”, the cost will be borne by the local governments.

Therefore, Financial support for normalized nucleic acid testing is currently provided by the financial department in various places.

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Information sources: CCTV News, National Medical Insurance Administration