Details of 40 medical services that will have prices adjusted and reduced in May
I am happy for the people of the whole country that from May 2018, it is expected that about 40 medical services will have their prices adjusted, many of which will be discounted.
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| The information that many medical services will be discounted was given by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at a recent interdisciplinary meeting, with the participation of Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue. |
According to information from the Ministry of Health, in May, a circular on adjusting the prices of 40 medical services will be issued. Currently, the prices of these services are being reviewed in the direction of calculating correctly and sufficiently to lower or increase the prices of these medical services.
These are groups of services that are used frequently and commonly such as: Medical examination and treatment prices, hospital bed prices, X-ray service prices, regular ultrasound, CT, MRI, ENT endoscopy, traditional medicine treatment services, etc.
For example, medical examination fees at special and grade 1 hospitals are reduced from VND 39,000 to VND 35,000 per visit, grade 2 hospitals from VND 35,000 to VND 29,000, grade 3 hospitals from VND 31,000 to VND 23,000, grade 4 hospitals and commune health stations from VND 29,000 to VND 20,000.
ENT endoscopy services are reduced from 202,000 VND to 135,000 VND/time, ultrasound is reduced from 49,000 VND to 39,500 VND, digital X-ray of 1 film is reduced from 69,000 VND to 62,900 VND, CT scanner up to 32 rows without contrast agent is reduced from 536,000 VND to 520,900 VND, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with contrast agent is reduced from 2,336,000 VND to 2,279,000 VND...
In particular, some medical services have been greatly reduced in price, such as: Interventional ultrasound - catheter placement for abscess drainage has been greatly reduced from 2,058,000 VND to 599,100 VND, and tonsillectomy with electric knife has been greatly reduced from 3,679,000 VND to 1,603,000 VND.
Along with that, some traditional medicine services such as acupuncture methods reduced from 81,800 VND to 75,200 VND, infrared reduced from 41,100 VND to 38,200 VND, laser acupuncture reduced from 78,500 VND to 33,000 VND, local manual massage reduced from 59,500 VND to 43,100 VND, full body massage reduced from 87,000 VND to 49,500 VND...
According to the leaders of the Ministry of Health, the adjustment of medical service prices in the direction of many services will be reduced in price in the near future is due to the recent implementation of the medical examination and treatment network, the number of patients coming to medical facilities at the district level has increased. The number of patients per total number of examination tables in some places has increased from 20% - 40%.
Therefore, along with adjusting the price of some medical services, the Ministry of Health plans to adjust the total number of patients examined by doctors in an 8-hour working day from 35 to 45 - 50 people/examination table.
