Help more patients "hear, speak" The State Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Otolaryngology Medical Service Price Project Guidelines (Trial)"

Hearing, smell and taste are important ways for people to perceive the world and communicate with each other. Ear, nose and throat health is related to the public's life health and happiness. Recently, the State Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Otolaryngology medical service price project Guidelines (trial)", the original price items unified integration into 164, guiding the local standardization of otolaryngology medical service prices, aimed at promoting medical institutions to improve the quality and standardization of diagnosis and treatment, to help more patients "hear, speak".

Cochlear implants, hearing AIDS price items care for the "one old one small" hearing world

Cochlear implant is currently recognized globally as one of the most effective methods for the treatment of double-focus or extremely severe sensorineural deafness, especially for children, the golden window period for implantation at the age of 1 year, 3 years old and 6 years old. The earlier the intervention, the more beneficial to children's recognition, understanding and memory of sounds. In March 2025, the price of cochlear implant collection will be significantly reduced, greatly reducing the economic burden of hearing-impaired patients, so that more patients who cannot be treated due to c

In order to cooperate with the implementation of the cochlear implant collection policy and optimize and improve cochlear implant treatment services, the "Guidance for the Establishment of the ENT Medical Service Price Project (Trial)" has set up "cochlear implant adaptation", "Cochlear implant" and "cochlear implant extraction" and other items. Among them, the cochlear implant will be "malformed cochlear" as an addition, on the one hand, to encourage medical institutions to provide more standardized treatment services for patients with complex cases, on the other hand, it is also a full reflection of the value of complex medical technology. For cases where the implant is damaged or needs to be removed due to infection, bump and other reasons, the cochlear implant removal price item also provides a clear charging basis.

At the same time, with the accelerated aging of the population, more and more elderly people need to use hearing AIDS, and the debugging effect of hearing AIDS directly affects the wearing quality and hearing effect of the elderly. In the survey, we learned that many elderly people give up the use of hearing AIDS because of the abnormal sound of hearing AIDS. To this end, the project guidelines specifically regulate the price items such as "adaptation of hearing AIDS", "implantation of bone guided hearing AIDS", "implantation of middle ear hearing AIDS" and "removal of hearing AIDS". The next step will guide local governments to reasonably set price levels and promote medical institutions to provide more sophisticated hearing aid device placement and commissioning services for elderly people with hearing loss. Better meet the medical needs of the elderly with different types of hearing loss.

New technology and new products help laryngeal cancer patients regain a new "voice"

Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors of the head and neck, which seriously affects the pronunciation, breathing and swallowing of patients. For early laryngeal cancer, minimally invasive surgery or radiation therapy is usually used in the clinic, while advanced or recurrent patients often need to undergo total laryngectomy to control the disease. However, although total laryngectomy can effectively remove the lesion, it also leads to the loss of normal vocal ability, which greatly affects the quality of life and social ability.

With the continuous development of medical technology, some emerging laryngeal technology has become the key to improve the quality of life of laryngeal cancer patients. Implantation of auxiliary articulatory tube after total laryngectomy is an important method to regain speech function after total laryngectomy. Currently, it has been widely used in Europe and the United States, but it is still in the promotion stage in China. Medical resources are limited in some areas, and patients are difficult to obtain appropriate treatment. In order to encourage the popularization of the project, the "Otolaryngology Medical Service Price Project Guidelines (Trial)" set up a "pronunciation device installation, pronunciation device removal/replacement" project to encourage medical institutions to provide diagnosis and treatment services for patients with pronunciation disorders, help them recover their speech expression ability, so as to help patients better adapt to normal social life.

The Otolaryngology Medical Service Price Project Guidelines (Trial) covers many items and covers a wide range, which is due to the close relationship between ear, nose and throat in anatomical structure and function, related diseases often affect each other, and need collaborative diagnosis and treatment. As an integrated discipline, otolaryngology emphasizes the collaboration of multidisciplinary doctors to improve diagnosis and treatment results. The formulation of the project guidelines will not only help optimize the medical service system, but also promote the acceleration of new technologies and new products into the clinic, improve patient diagnosis and treatment experience, promote the standardization of disease diagnosis and treatment, and ensure that patients get more professional and efficient medical services.