New points on payment, referral, medicine and supplies for health insurance patients

It is expected that early next week the National Assembly will consider the revised Health Insurance Bill with many expected new points, such as home medical examination and treatment covered by insurance, insurance benefits designed on the basis of eliminating 'administrative boundaries'...

People do health insurance procedures at the Social Insurance of Ba Dinh district, Hanoi - Photo: NAM TRAN

In addition, the Ministry of Health and Vietnam Social Insurance have recently continuously issued many new regulations regarding the payment of medicine and supplies for health insurance patients, or lower-level hospitals are allowed to use health insurance drugs like upper-level hospitals, instead of the drug list depending on the hospital level as before.

Currently, over 92% of Vietnamese people have health insurance. With these innovations, patients are looking forward to more convenient health insurance treatment, and insurance patients can reduce the out-of-pocket payment which has increased recently due to many hospitals lacking medicine and medical supplies.

To help people better understand the innovations in health insurance regulations, what can be applied immediately, when the new referral regulations will be applied and in which cases they can be transferred, which drugs that people buy themselves will be directly paid for by insurance... Tuoi Tre newspaper coordinated with the Ministry of Health to organize an online exchange "New points on payment, referral, drugs and supplies for health insurance patients".

From now on, readers who have questions about health insurance, including the above issues, can send questions to the guests:

- Ms. Vu Nu Anh , Deputy Director of Health Insurance Department, Ministry of Health.

- Master, Doctor, Specialist II Tran Thai Son , Deputy Head of General Planning Department, Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi).

The answer will be updated on tuoitre.vn from 9am to 11am on November 25th. Please stay tuned.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nhung-diem-moi-ve-chi-tra-chuyen-tuyen-thuoc-va-vat-tu-cho-nguoi-benh-bao-hiem-y-te-2024112410344937.htm