Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 12 (Reporter Xu Penghang) The reporter learned from the National Health Insurance Administration on the 12th that the National Health Insurance Administration recently issued the "Guidelines for the Pricing Project of Neurological Medical Services (Trial)", which is a forward-looking and independent project of new brain-computer interface technologies, helping new technologies accelerate the transformation of results.
In recent years, with the improvement of technologies such as artificial intelligence, neurobiology, and sensors, brain-computer interface technology has developed rapidly. It is a prospective and independent project for new brain-computer interface technologies, which will help promote the application of brain-computer interface technologies to clinical practice as soon as possible and benefit the majority of patients.
It is reported that brain-computer interface technology is mainly divided into non-invasive and invasive. In response to the situation where non-invasive brain-computer interfaces require continuous debugging of equipment, the project guide has added a price item of "non-invasive brain-computer interface adaptation fee"; for invasive brain-computer interfaces, the project guide has specially set up price items such as "invasive brain-computer interface insertion fee" and "invasive brain-computer interface withdrawal fee".
The National Health Insurance Administration stated that this means that once the brain-computer interface technology is mature and the charging path for quickly entering clinical applications has been paved, and after local governments implement project guidelines, there will be regulations for the medical charges for brain-computer interfaces.
In addition, the project approval guide also sets "regular" and "complex" projects for treatments with high technical value and high risk. If the expert consensus determines that it is a complex situation, the "complex" project fee can be directly included.
