Health department to assess hospital charges

Chen Zhu to "see a doctor expensive" outspoken, will focus on the control of unreasonable drug Wu (reporter Wu) "The masses of personal medical costs are still heavier", the Ministry of Health Minister Chen Zhu "doctor expensive" outspoken.　　Chen Zhu said at the National Health Conference held yesterday that this year the Ministry of Health will control the rapid growth of medical expenses as an important task, will be combined with the health care reform monitoring of the control of the cost of special evaluation and assessment. Health costs individual does not exceed 30% a study by the World Health Organization shows that the proportion of individual expenditure in a country's total health costs is reduced to 15% to 20%, in order to basically solve the problem of "poverty by illness" and "return to poverty by illness". In 2009, China's personal hygiene expenditure accounted for 38.19% of the total health costs, a figure of 52.21% in 2005, Chen said.　　The Ministry of Health expects this percentage to fall below 30% per cent during the "Twelve-Five" period.　　The Ministry of Health is responsible for the "New Rural cooperative Medical system", Chen Zhu pointed out that this year will be the province as a unit to comprehensively promote the medical security of children's disease pilot work, and to improve the severe mental illness, breast cancer, cervical cancer, middle-end kidney disease, such as the level of protection of Changes in medical expenses regularly published information on public hospital reform, Chen Zhu stressed the issue of controlling the growth of medical expenses. Zhu said that from the experience of countries, with the aging population, basic medical security system development, medical costs will have a certain extent of growth. The increase in consumer price indices will also affect the level of medical expenses.　　But he said the rise in medical costs must be compatible with the level of economic development, with government finances, basic health care and personal affordability. Chen Zhu hope that the regional analysis of the rising trend of local medical costs and causes, the scientific establishment of per capita outpatient, per capita hospitalization costs control objectives and indicators, focusing on the control of unreasonable drug use, unreasonable inspection and some key specialist medical costs of the rapid rise. "Local Health Administration departments to the medical institutions of their own changes in the information published regularly, accept social supervision." The Ministry of Health and the various localities should combine the medical reform monitoring to carry on the special appraisal and the appraisal to the charge situation. ”