Table 2.

New financing policies for tuberculosis (TB) treatments in the three project provinces

Province	Time of issue	Strategy	Coverage
Zhejiang	June 17, 2019	Improvement of outpatient care coverage in Urban and Rural Residence Basic Medical Insurance	TB included in the outpatient scheme for chronic diseases Outpatient reimbursement at primary health facility: ≥ 70%, At secondary and tertiary hospitals: dependence of affordability of health insurance funds in each city and county
Jilin	August 10, 2018	Linkage with rural poverty alleviation program and target poor rural patients with TB	Social and government funds: The medical costs should be shared by New Cooperative Medical Scheme, the medical scheme for severe diseases, and Medical Assistance and local government earmarked funds Out-of-pocket payment:  Inpatient care: 10%  Outpatient care: 20%
Ningxia	October 20, 2017	Improvement of outpatient care coverage in Urban and Rural Residence Basic Medical Insurance and Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance	TB included in outpatient scheme for severe diseases in basic medical insurance schemes
	March 15, 2018	Contribution of local government in sharing medical costs for TB	Social and government funds: Medical costs should be shared by the basic medical insurance schemes and local earmarked government funds Out-of-pocket payment:  Drug-resistant TB patients: 10%  Drug-susceptible TB patients: 30%

Data source: Policy paper of the project provinces, 2019 June 30