Hainan Incorporates Medical Responsibility Insurance into the "Safety" Assessment

“Incorporating medical responsibility insurance coverage into the assessment content of the “Safe Hospital” creation activity and hospital assessment work, and implement a one-vote veto. For those who do not participate in medical liability insurance without special reasons, health administrative departments at all levels must be accountable.” The Hainan Provincial Department of Health issued an emergency notice requiring all types of medical institutions in the province to do a good job of medical liability insurance coverage as soon as possible.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Health and other three ministries and commissions, on June 1, 2010, Hainan Provincial Comprehensive Management Office, the Health Department, the Ministry of Justice, Hainan Insurance Regulatory Agency and other 10 units jointly issued the “on the establishment of the Hainan Provincial Medical Dispute Resolution Mechanism. The “Work Plan” and “Provisional Regulations on the Prevention and Disposition of Medical Disputes in Hainan Province” clearly require that all provinces seek medical institutions to participate in Hainan medical liability insurance. Recently, the Hainan Provincial Medical Liability Insurance Agency has negotiated a bid to establish a joint insurance body consisting of four insurance companies, Pacific, Sunshine, Earth, and Ping An, and jointly assume medical liability insurance for Hainan medical institutions.

The Department of Health of Hainan Province requires that all types of medical institutions at all levels in the province should effectively apply Hainan medical liability insurance as soon as possible in accordance with the uniform deployment and requirements of the health administrative department. The insured work was included in the evaluation content of the “safe hospital” creation activity and the hospital assessment work, and one vote was rejected. Hainan Province also stipulates that in order to cater for the “Large Number Rule” of insurance, all medical institutions may purchase public liability insurance, group accidental injury insurance, property insurance, motor vehicle insurance, etc., to the co-insurance body if conditions permit. Non-public medical institutions and military medical institutions may refer to local public medical institutions to participate in Hainan medical liability insurance. For those who have participated in other medical liability insurance, they shall go through the formalities for surrender in time and participate in Hainan medical liability insurance. If the original medical liability insurance underwriting unit is one of the medical insurance liability insurance units in Hainan Province, the Provincial Health Department shall coordinate the procedures for surrendering. The original medical liability insurance underwriting unit is not a Hainan provincial medical liability insurance underwriting unit. The provincial health department entrusts relevant agencies to coordinate surrender.