National Health Insurance Administration: Striving to significantly reduce the phenomenon of hospital queueing for payment within about 3 years.

On December 13, 2025, the National Health Insurance Work Conference was held in Beijing. The meeting called for continuous optimization of medical insurance management services in 2026 to promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of medical insurance services. Accelerate the direct settlement of maternity medical expenses across different pooling areas within the province, and fully realize the cross-province use of individual accounts for employee medical insurance. Fully deepen the application of facial recognition payments, one-touch payments, mobile payments, and credit payments, and strive to significantly reduce hospital queues for payments within about 3 years, aiming to create a happy and convenient medical insurance system.