Should Medical Insurance Cover Stop-Smoking Drugs?

At a seminar discussing ways to prevent chronic disease held in Shanghai on March 31, 2012, Chen Zhu, Minister of Health, revealed that the ministry was planning to include expenditures on counseling to stop smoking into the basic medical insurance system provided by the govern- ment, and would pay for drugs that help reduce dependence on tobacco.

上海试点医疗保险药品带量采购的实践与思考

介绍上海试点医疗保险药品带量采购的实践,在分析试点特点、总结试点成效的基础上,思考药品集中带量采购当前正在及今后可能面临的挑战,建议通过引入综合评价、优化医疗保险支付等方式理性应对“后带量采购”时代的挑战。