Pomdoctor Expands Integration with China's Medical Insurance Systems to Enhance Service Reach

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POMDOCTOR LIMITED ("Pomdoctor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:POM), a leading online medical services platform for chronic diseases in China, today announced a strategic initiative to deepen the integration of its platform with China's national and local coordinated medical insurance systems across major cities nationwide. This initiative is expected to significantly expand the Company's market reach and enhance its service offerings, delivering greater convenience and richer functionality for partner internet hospitals, pharmacies, and patients.

Since 2018, China has actively promoted internet-based medical services through a series of policy guidelines, industry standards, and administrative measures, including provisions enabling online medical insurance reimbursement. In response, provincial and municipal implementation plans have been rolled out steadily, particularly in core economic regions such as Guangdong Province and city clusters within the Greater Bay Area. These regional policies support the development of the "internet + healthcare" ecosystem by establishing standards for internet hospitals, facilitating outpatient care for chronic diseases, and enabling medical insurance payments for eligible online medical services.

This policy trajectory represents a pivotal pathway for the digital transformation of China's healthcare system, reshaping traditional models of medical service delivery. Leveraging this favorable macro environment, Pomdoctor has been proactively expanding its platform services in key cities by integrating with local online medical insurance payment systems. For example, in Guangzhou—where online insurance payment infrastructure is relatively mature—the Company has successfully supported medical insurance settlements for chronic and special disease outpatients for more than two years. This experience provides a strong operational benchmark for Pomdoctor's planned expansion into other Greater Bay Area cities, including Foshan (planned for the first quarter of 2026), Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Huizhou.

In parallel, the Company is prioritizing expansion in municipalities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin, as well as major regional centers including Chengdu, Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Fuzhou. These cities generally feature progressive medical insurance policies, fewer household registration restrictions, more efficient cross-provincial settlement mechanisms, and enhanced payment facilitation, offering significant opportunities for scalable growth.

Integration with medical insurance systems substantially strengthens the value proposition of Pomdoctor's platform, which combines online physician consultations with home-delivered medications. Compared with the often time-consuming process of visiting physical hospitals, patients can now, through the Company's mobile app or WeChat mini-program, complete online consultations, receive digital prescriptions, submit documentation for near-real-time insurance reimbursement, and have prescribed medications delivered directly to their homes.