1. Formulating and implementing medical insurance policies: The Medical Insurance Bureau is responsible for formulating policies such as basic medical insurance system, fund raising and use, medical insurance catalogue, payment standard of medical expenses, and medical price management, so as to ensure citizens' basic medical needs.

2. Supervision and management of medical insurance funds: The Medical Insurance Bureau is responsible for supervising and managing the collection, management and use of medical insurance funds to ensure the safe, stable and rational use of medical insurance funds. At the same time, it will also organize and participate in the investigation and statistical analysis of social insurance medical services and related policies, and constantly improve and optimize the medical insurance system.

3. Providing management services: The Medical Insurance Bureau provides corresponding management services for employers, employees and retired cadres who participate in basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance, such as accepting daily affairs such as approval, payment and management of basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance and maternity insurance.

4. Medical insurance handling business: The Medical Insurance Bureau is responsible for the audit and settlement of social insurance medical expenses, compiling management service standards, processes and publicity materials for social insurance medical handling business, providing inquiry and consulting services for related businesses and accepting related complaints.

5. Informatization construction: The Medical Insurance Bureau is also responsible for medical insurance management, public service system and informatization construction, promoting the reform of payment methods of medical insurance funds, and establishing and improving the safety prevention and control mechanism of medical insurance funds.

The benefits of paying medical insurance are as follows:

1 is conducive to improving labor productivity and promoting the development of production. Medical insurance is the inevitable result of social progress and production development. Conversely, the establishment and improvement of medical insurance system will further promote social progress and production development. On the one hand, medical insurance relieves the worries of workers, makes them work with peace of mind, can improve labor productivity and promote the development of production; On the other hand, it also ensures the physical and mental health of workers and the normal reproduction of labor;

2. Adjust income differences and reflect social equity. Medical insurance is an important means for the government to redistribute income by collecting medical insurance premiums and paying medical insurance service fees.

3. An important guarantee for promoting economic system reform, especially the reform of state-owned enterprises.

To sum up, the Medical Insurance Bureau has played an important role in protecting citizens' basic medical needs, maintaining the security and stability of medical insurance funds, and providing efficient and convenient medical insurance services.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 23

Employees should participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and employers and employees should pay the basic medical insurance premiums in accordance with state regulations. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic medical insurance for employees and other flexible employees can participate in the basic medical insurance for employees, and individuals pay the basic medical insurance premium in accordance with state regulations.