Hainan’s Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone launched a special commercial medical insurance that covers 49 imported innovative drugs in order to lower medical expenses and better serve patients.
The pilot zone is the only one of its kind in China that enjoys nine preferential policies, which allow medical institutions in the zone to import and use badly-needed drugs and medical equipment from overseas that are not yet approved by the top drug authority in China.
With the introduction of the special commercial insurance product, patients can not only gain access to imported drugs they need, but are better able to bear expenses.
“In this way, we are truly achieving the goal of ‘enabling…