The reporter learned from the National Medical Security Work Conference held in Beijing on the 9th that in recent years, the National Medical Insurance Administration has been promoting the continuous optimization of the medical insurance catalog. The new version of the catalog, which was implemented on New Year's Day this year, added 126 new drugs, bringing the total number to 3088. During the 2023 agreement period, the negotiated drug benefits reached over 210 million people who purchased drugs, combined with price reductions and medical insurance reimbursements, reducing the burden on patients by over 200 billion yuan. In 2023, the National Medical Insurance Administration will focus on benefiting the people and promoting new progress in medical insurance work. Improve the quality of insurance participation and build a solid foundation for protection. While addressing the issue of over 16 million duplicate insured individuals, the insurance coverage rates for low-income and poverty-stricken rural populations have remained stable at over 99.9%. The triple system ensures that outpatient and inpatient medical care reaches over 150 million people, and the burden is reduced by over 170 billion yuan. Improve outpatient security benefits. Employee medical insurance has basically established a general outpatient pooling system, covering over 400000 medical institutions. Within the year, the number of reimbursements exceeded 2.5 billion and the amount of reimbursements exceeded 200 billion yuan. Continuously promote centralized procurement of drug consumption. Two batches of 80 types of drugs were launched for national centralized procurement within the year, with an average price reduction of 57%. Carry out centralized procurement of artificial lenses and sports medicine consumables, with an average price reduction of 70%. We will carry out a special management of dental implant medical service fees and consumables prices, and the overall cost of a single implanted tooth will be reduced from an average of 15000 yuan to 6000 to 7000 yuan, with a cumulative implantation of 1.5 million teeth. In terms of improving the convenience of remote medical treatment, the number of cross provincial and remote medical networking medical institutions has reached 550000, benefiting 130 million people for medical treatment, and reducing the advance payment of 153.67 billion yuan. In terms of supervision of medical insurance funds, 750000 medical institutions were inspected and verified in 2023, 363000 were processed, and 17.15 billion yuan of medical insurance funds were recovered. In terms of expanding the application of medical insurance informatization, the medical insurance code has been activated for over 1.08 billion people, covering over 800000 designated medical institutions. More than 70% of the national medical insurance government services have been fully processed online, and 8 high-frequency matters such as resident insurance registration have been processed across provinces. In terms of strengthening drug price governance capabilities, we will unify and standardize online drug price data, carry out regular supervision, and orderly correct the abnormal prices of 116 types of drug consumables. The National Medical Insurance Administration is promoting the comprehensive establishment of a dynamic adjustment mechanism for medical service prices. In 2023, 28 provinces will carry out price adjustment work, accelerate the review of new medical service price items, and add more than 1900 items throughout the year. The meeting clearly stated that a new batch of national organized centralized procurement of pharmaceutical consumables will be carried out this year, and the agreement for selected varieties in centralized procurement will be continued upon expiration, achieving a total of at least 500 national and provincial centralized procurement of pharmaceutical products. (Lixin News Agency) (Reporter Sun Xiuyan)