From April 8, the maximum price of nucleic acid testing for COVID-19 in medical institutions in Guangdong will be reduced to a single sample per person The testing service fee is 20 yuan, and the total cost of testing and reagents per person has been reduced from 40 yuan to no more than 28 yuan, a 30% reduction; the maximum price per person for multi-person mixed testing has been reduced from 8 yuan to 6 yuan, a 25% reduction; The antigen test service fee has been reduced to 5 yuan per person, and the total cost of testing and kits has been reduced from 31.8 yuan to no more than 15 yuan per person, a decrease of 53%; the new crown vaccine injection medical insurance settlement standard has been reduced from 9 yuan to 4.5 yuan each time , down 50%.

The Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau clarifies that if the masses simply conduct nucleic acid and antigen testing, no outpatient examination fee shall be charged; , the service fee for the new coronavirus antigen test project shall not be charged. Nucleic acid detection reagents and antigen detection kits are subject to the price of the products selected in the centralized procurement.

Recently, in the face of the severe epidemic situation across the country, in order to promote the fairness and accessibility of new coronavirus nucleic acid and antigen testing, further improve the ability of “early detection”, reduce For the cost of large-scale nucleic acid screening and high-frequency testing, Guangdong has lowered the price of nucleic acid testing service fees for the fifth time. As of the end of March, it has saved a total of 17.687 billion yuan in medical insurance funds and the public burden.

Relevant person in charge introduced that in the next step, Guangdong will carry out a new round of centralized procurement of 7 types of supporting consumables such as new coronavirus detection reagents and vaccine syringes. Further reduce the burden on the masses, better serve the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and escort epidemic prevention and control.

Source: Guangdong Health Headlines (Reporter Zhong Zhe)

Editor: Huang Yixin

Editor in charge: Wang Hui