Continue to increase hospital fees in 2014
Deputy Head of the Government Office Nguyen Khac Dinh has just issued a document announcing Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh's opinion of agreeing to the roadmap for increasing hospital fees developed by the Ministry of Health and submitted to the Government.
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According to the Ministry of Health's plan, in 2014, hospital fees will continue to increase in the treatment area. Hospital fees will be collected in the direction of including 7/7 constituent elements, including salary, on-duty allowance, surgery allowance... Meanwhile, current hospital fees (with 407 new services increasing in price in mid-2012) only calculate 3/7 elements.
Accordingly, the Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance to develop human resource standards for each surgery and procedure, as a basis for the Ministry of Health and Finance to provide guidance on payment levels. The Deputy Prime Minister also assigned the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to develop salary standards for doctors according to hospital class.
According to the Ministry of Health's plan, in 2014, hospital fees will continue to increase in the treatment area. Hospital fees will be collected in the direction of including 7/7 constituent elements, including salary, on-duty allowance, surgery allowance... Meanwhile, current hospital fees (with 407 new services increasing in price in mid-2012) only calculate 3/7 elements.
According to VTV