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Sixth Flagship Training on Health Care Financing with China’s NHSA

The Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP) and China’s National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) jointly hosted the sixth annual Flagship Course on Effective and Sustainable Health Care Financing in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Province. This annual executive training series aims to provide theoretical foundation and international perspectives on emerging policy decisions and implementation details for key policy makers and implementers from the NHSA.

This year, the emphasis of the course landed on provider payment and strategic purchasing, two key functions of the NHSA. On provider payment, the course first provided a theoretical understanding of how provider payment methods act as important levers to affect provider behavior and the outcomes of the system. Then, experts from China, the US, Germany and Australia introduced their countries’ respective experience with DRG and the lessons learned. Each of these sessions also featured a discussion between the participants, domestic experts, and the international expert, to compare and apply the international experience to China’s reform contexts.

Professor Winnie Yip and NHSA’s Guodong Wang During the Opening Session

Professors William Hsiao, Reinhard Busse and Stephen Duckett on their respective countries’ DRG History

Professors Wen Chen, Weiyan Jian, Hongqiao Fu and Min Hu on China’s DRG development and next steps

Local Representatives Presenting Their Local Innovations

The second half of the training focused on strategic purchasing. This part of the course featured leading domestic and international experts giving a comparison of worldwide experience and research on drug and equipment purchasing, as well as China’s volume-based purchasing, followed by a dialogue among invited experts. Representatives from Southeast Asia also joined the course and the exchange.

NHSA’s Chaohui Dong, Professors Luwen Shi and Prashant Yadav on China and Worldwide Purchasing Experience

One proud tradition of the course is the multi-formatted pedagogy. From lectures to discussions, to dialogues, and case studies, to groupwork. Participants are assigned into groups to encourage discussions during class, case studies, and groupwork. On the last day of the course, each group’s groupwork culminated into presentations of in-depth analysis of current policies and recommendations for future action, that combined the knowledge learned from the course and their own experience in China’s reform.

We hope that this annual executive training for NHSA can provide meaningful knowledge and experience for policymakers to borrow when they make their own decisions in the next step of the healthcare reform. On the other hand, we hope the world can also learn from China’s successes and lessons in providing accessible, high quality healthcare services to 1.4 billion people.