Three departments jointly issued a notice to comprehensively carry out direct settlement of medical expenses for work-related injuries across provinces.

Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Notice on the Comprehensive Implementation of Direct Settlement of Cross-provincial Medical Treatment for Work-related Injuries." Starting from April 1, all prefecture-level cities will organize the direct settlement of cross-provincial medical treatment for work-related injuries, relying on the national work-related injury insurance cross-provincial medical treatment settlement information system, gradually achieving work-related employees to directly settle cross-provincial medical treatment hospitalization expenses, hospitalization rehabilitation expenses, and auxiliary equipment allocation expenses with their social security cards. The "Notice" specifies the relevant policies, medical treatment processes, filing procedures, expense settlement scope and requirements for work-related employees seeking medical treatment across provinces after comprehensive implementation, and also clearly states that by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan", in three steps, all tier-three designated work-related medical institutions and rehabilitation and auxiliary equipment allocation agreement institutions will be fully covered. The "Notice" requires that work-related employees who have participated in work-related injury insurance and completed work injury recognition, confirmation of work injury recurrence, confirmation of work injury rehabilitation, or confirmation of auxiliary equipment allocation, and who live long-term in another province, work in another province, or are transferred to another province for treatment, can apply for direct settlement of medical expenses across provinces. The "Notice" also stipulates that the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security will manage the registration of people with medical needs in another province, and carry out the management of medical funds and information system construction for out-of-province medical treatment.