It only took half a day for admission, surgery, and discharge. After the medical insurance settlement, it only took more than 300 yuan. Day surgery solves the difficult problems of the elderly

Surgery in progress

Recently , 67-year-old Aunt Lin received a ureteral stent implantation at the Day Surgery Center of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University. In the past ten years, Aunt Lin has been hospitalized for more than ten days at a time, and at least four or five days. This time, she only took half a day from admission, surgery, and discharge. She was discharged home at noon on the same day, and when she was discharged from the hospital, the medical insurance was settled, and she only paid more than 300 yuan for the out-of-pocket part.

Aunt Lin suffered from bladder cancer for 14 years. She underwent a total cystectomy more than ten years ago and replaced the bladder with the ileum. Due to repeated infection of ureteral stenosis, ureteral stent needs to be implanted, so her ureteral stent implantation is a “very difficult minor operation”, because the bowel replaces the bladder, and it is difficult to find the ureteral opening from the bowel, and it is more difficult to perform retrograde intubation. big.

“In the past, no one dared to do it in Gansu. We had to go to Beijing to seek medical treatment. We couldn’t live in a hospital. We often waited in hotels for half a month, which was expensive and frustrating.” Aunt Lin’s wife said . Later, Zhang Wei, director of the Urology Department of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, took the lead in carrying out such operations in the province. At the earliest, the operation took 4 hours, but now it can be successfully completed in half an hour.

On the same day, the Department of Urology of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University successfully completed 3 such operations. The average total cost of the three patients is about 6,000 yuan. After reimbursement by medical insurance, the out-of-pocket expenses are only about 300 yuan. “It really saves time, effort and money. It’s so convenient. I no longer have to run back and forth to deliver meals every day.” Aunt Lin’s wife said with emotion.

Ambulatory surgery is a new mode of diagnosis and treatment, which has been gradually carried out in major hospitals at home and abroad in recent years. Due to its outstanding advantages such as promoting the efficiency of medical services, accelerating the recovery of patients, shortening the length of hospitalization, and saving medical expenses, it is widely supported by the state, government and society.

Lv Xinghua, director of the day surgery center, said that day surgery can effectively improve the hospital turnover rate, improve the efficiency of medical insurance funds, and facilitate the insured people to seek medical treatment. In 2021, under the leadership of the Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau, day surgery in Gansu Province will be included in the medical insurance. Currently, 45 day surgery diseases are included in the medical insurance coverage. Expenses for examinations and laboratory tests) and necessary disposal expenses (such as dressing changes, suture removal, etc.) within 1 week after surgery are included in the settlement of day surgery, which not only saves medical resources, speeds up bed turnover, but also brings extreme benefits to patients. Great convenience.

(Photo provided by Lanzhou University First Academy)

Lanzhou Daily All Media Reporter Tian Xiaodong