Notice on issues related to the payment of medical expenses for foreign patients with new coronary pneumonia china
The notice, published recently by the National Health Commission, National Healthcare Security Administration, Ministry of Finance and Foreign Ministry, requests that medical facilities on the mainland should provide treatment to foreign nationals with confirmed or suspected infection, no matter if they are covered by the mainland's healthcare security or not.
The policy is aimed at ensuring that all foreign patients will be immediately admitted to hospitals even if they are not enrolled in the country's basic health insurance.
Foreign nationals will also need to cover expenses incurred from medical observation at hospitals or centralized quarantine, according to the notification.
It requires local governments to obtain and update information on novel coronavirus cases detected among foreigners in China, and appropriately handle treatment and medical payment in such cases. Significant problems must be quickly reported to higher authorities.
Though the majority of locally transmitted infections and imported cases in China are Chinese nationals, local authorities have also reported an increasing number of infections among foreign national communities.
source: hhttp://www.nhsa.gov.cn/art/2020/4/15/art_37_2996.html
