- Drafts laws and regulations, policies, plans and standards for medical insurance systems, such as medical insurance, maternity insurance and medical assistance; formulates departmental rules and regulations and organizes their implementation
- Supervises and manages medical security funds, establishes and improves safety prevention and control mechanism of medical security funds, and reforms methods for medical security funds
- Manages medical security financing and treatment policies, improves the dynamic adjustment and regional adjustment and balancing mechanism, coordinates urban and rural treatment standards, establishes and improves the treatment adjustment mechanism
- Formulates the medical insurance catalogue and payment standards for drugs, medical consumables, medical service items, medical service facilities; establishes a dynamic adjustment mechanism in rural and urban areas
- Regulates prices for drugs and medical consumables, medical service items and medical service facilities; establishes a mechanism for reasonable determination and dynamic adjustment of medical service prices paid by medical insurance, promotes the establishment of a market-oriented mechanism for medical service prices; establishes a system for price information monitoring and information release
- Formulates and supervises bidding and purchasing policies for drugs and medical consumables; oversees bidding and purchasing platforms for drugs and medical consumables
- Manages agreements and payment systems for designated medical institutions; establishes and improves the credit evaluation system and information disclosure system for medical insurance, supervises and manages the medical service behaviors and medical expenses included in the scope of medical insurance, investigates and punishes the illegal behaviors in the field of medical insurance according to law
- Be responsible for the management of medical security agency, public service system and information construction
- Organizes the formulation and improvement of policies on medical treatment management and cost settlement in different places.
- Establishes and improve the transfer and continuation system of medical security relationship. Carries out international cooperation and exchanges in the field of medical security
- Completes other tasks assigned by the Party Central Committee and the State Council
- Improves the unified basic medical insurance system and serious illness insurance system for urban and rural residents, establishes and improves a multi-level medical insurance system covering the whole people and balancing urban and rural areas, constantly improves the level of medical insurance, ensures the rational use of medical insurance funds, safe and controllable
- The National Health Commission, the National Medical Security Bureau and other departments must strengthen medical treatment, medical insurance, medicine and communication and consultation mechanisms. In addition, the NHC should coordinate to promote reform, improve the efficiency of medical resources use and promote medical security