Heilongjiang: The cost of upgrading a hospital to a hospital remains unchanged

Recently, Heilongjiang Provincial Health Department stressed that eligible township hospitals are encouraged to be promoted to secondary hospitals, but the functions of township hospitals must be retained, and in charges, medical insurance and other policies to maintain the promotion policy unchanged, not to increase the economic pressure of the masses.
The provincial health department recently replied to the application for promotion of the new Red Cross Hospital to a level II hospital in the Dauri District of Harbin City, and in its reply, it was suggested that after the promotion of the township hospital to a level II hospital, the original name could not be changed and still belonged to the primary health sequence
The legal person status, affiliation, functional orientation, input channels, asset attribution, employee status, etc. of the hospital shall remain unchanged, and after promotion, the same policies shall be enjoyed with the secondary hospitals in terms of staffing, bed use, subjects and scope of diagnosis and treatment, as well as medication, and the policy of charging, medical insurance and so on shall remain unchanged, and the charging standards shall not be raised to increase the economic pressure on the masses. If some of the new items exceed the scope of the original charges of township hospitals, they may be carried out by reference to the secondary hospital charges, but the charging standards should be lowered appropriately. (Health News)