National Healthcare Security Administration

The Nation Healthcare Security Administration (Chinese: 国家医疗保障局), abbreviated as NHSA (Chinese: 医保局) is a sub-ministry-level government agency directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

NHSA primarily oversees the state-backed China Healthcare Security including general health insurance plan, maternity insurance, and medical aid programs. In doing that, it oversees the operation of the insurance fund, responsible for centralized purchasing of drugs and medical supplies. It is also responsible for the public-sector healthcare reform. The current director is Hu Jinglin (Chinese: 胡静林).