Beijing public hospitals can provide COVID-19-related symptoms online, and the reimbursement standards are the same.

　　CCTV News:In order to cope with the peak of medical treatment during the epidemic period and meet the medical service needs of the masses to the greatest extent, medical institutions in Beijing have taken a series of measures to continuously improve the capacity of receiving medical treatment.

　　In the past two weeks, the emergency volume of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital has continued to run at a high level.

　　The emergency room of Chaoyang Hospital has increased from 16 beds to 70 beds at most. The hospital also converted some specialized wards in the inpatient building to treat critically ill patients, and organized the whole hospital to actively treat them to reduce the pressure of emergency treatment.

　　The number of patients with fever in medical institutions in Beijing continued to increase, and Beijing also quickly added fever clinics, from 94 at the beginning of the month to 1263. In the fever clinic of Chaoyang Hospital, there are no long queues of patients outside, but there are still about 400 patients every day, about ten times as many as at the beginning of this month, and severe patients account for about 10%.

　　Beijing encourages the use of vacant shelter hospitals, gymnasiums, exhibition halls and other venues to transform and set up service points for patients with fever, focusing on providing prescription services for simple fever patients over 6 years old and under 60 years old without basic diseases, and making medical insurance settlement. At present, eight districts, including Xicheng, Chaoyang and Fengtai, have used gymnasiums to transform and expand 49 fever clinics, increasing the capacity of receiving fever patients by 4,200 times a day. Chaoyang Hospital opened the second fever clinic in Chaoyang Gymnasium, which was officially put into operation on the afternoon of 14th.

　　At present, public medical institutions in Beijing can provide the first consultation service for COVID-19’s symptoms online, which is implemented according to the offline medical service fee price policy and included in the basic medical insurance payment scope, which is consistent with the offline reimbursement standard. These days, many medical institutions, including Chaoyang Hospital, are actively expanding Internet diagnosis and treatment to meet the medical needs of COVID-19 patients during their home rehabilitation.