Central News (Central News Agency, Taipei, June 30) Public attention is focused on the reimbursement of "one-day surgery." The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) stated today that if one-day surgery simultaneously meets the three conditions for hospitalization stipulated in the policy terms, existing policies can still reimburse inpatient items. If hospitalization procedures are not completed, it will generally be handled according to the outpatient surgery agreement and will not be relaxed for inpatient reimbursement just because it is one-day surgery. The amendment to the Medical Act was passed on May 8, officially incorporating the three-tier nurse-to-patient ratio system into law, scheduled to be implemented in phases. National Taiwan University Hospital recently proposed that surgery originally requiring a 2.5-day hospital stay might gradually be changed to "one-day surgery." Many past medical insurance policies used hospitalization as a condition for reimbursement. Legislators are concerned whether one-day surgery will affect reimbursement, and the FSC indicated that it would present a research direction within one month. Regarding existing policies, Tsai Huo-yen, deputy director of the FSC's Insurance Bureau, stated that when life insurance companies design inpatient medical insurance premium rates, they are mostly actuarially calculated based on hospitalization. One-day surgery is a colloquial term, and there is no such term in medical regulations. The actual determination must refer back to the policy terms. If one-day surgery is a "one-day inpatient surgery" and simultaneously meets the three conditions for hospitalization, including the doctor's diagnosis that hospitalization is necessary, completing hospitalization procedures, and actually receiving treatment in the hospital, inpatient surgery benefits will be reimbursed. Tsai Huo-yen pointed out that if one-day surgery does not involve hospitalization procedures, it will generally be handled accordi