The list of the first 119 regions for convenient medical insurance payment has been announced, covering entire areas such as Jilin and Ningxia.

On April 8, 2026, the National Healthcare Security Administration announced the list of the first batch of regions for convenient medical insurance payments, including full coverage in Jilin, Ningxia, and other areas.

According to the National Healthcare Security Administration, to effectively address bottlenecks and pain points such as “queueing multiple times” and “waiting in long lines” when people pay for medical treatment, the administration has deployed and advanced convenient payment work including facial recognition payments, one-code payments, mobile payments, and credit payments. It selected 119 pooled/overall-coordination regions as the first batch of regions to advance, aiming to significantly reduce the time spent queueing for payment and effectively ease insured people’s trouble of running around and lining up.

Recently, the National Healthcare Security Administration organized provinces to actively carry out exchange activities. With cities and hospitals as the main positions, they summarized and promoted experience and practices, giving full play to the “vanguard effect” and exemplary leading role, so as to truly achieve sharing of experience, joint resolution of problems, and raising of capabilities, and to accelerate the pace of reform and advancement.

The National Healthcare Security Administration stated that it welcomes relevant institutions from all sectors of society to coordinate and work together to address matters that are urgent, difficult, and concerning to ordinary people, and to advance the implementation of convenient payment work to land and take effect.

In January this year, the National Healthcare Security Administration had issued the Notice on Vigorously Promoting Convenient Payment Work, including facial recognition payments, one-code payments, mobile payments, and credit payments, clarifying the need to speed up the rollout of facial recognition payments, one-code payments, mobile payments, and credit payments in various medical scenarios.

Among them, facial recognition payment refers to completing identity verification and payment by “face scan,” without the need to carry physical cards or a mobile phone. One-code payment means one-time scanning to simultaneously complete medical insurance reimbursement, personal account payment, and payment of personal burden (the cash portion), with the payment process made integrated and extremely simplified. Mobile payment, through mobile apps, mini-programs, and so on, completes the entire process of registration, payment, and medical insurance reimbursement online, saving offline time spent queueing. Credit payment, based on the contractual relationship between the insured person and the bank, means that the bank first pays the medical expenses borne by the individual (cash portion) to the medical institution within the approved credit limit, realizing the model of “see the doctor at the hospital, pay at home.”

According to the above notice, provinces must ensure that the first batch of regions to be advanced in 2026 and designated medical institutions take effect. By 2027, they should basically achieve full coverage of pooled/overall-coordination regions within provinces. By 2028, qualified designated medical institutions within provinces should be comprehensively rolled out.