From July 15, many medical services will be discounted.
From July 15, the prices of medical examination and treatment services covered by health insurance (HI) will be unified among hospitals of the same rank nationwide. Accordingly, 88 medical services covered by HI will be discounted.
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| Medical service prices will decrease from July 15. |
The Ministry of Health has just issued Circular No. 15/2018/TT-BYT regulating the above content. Specifically, Circular 15 (replacing the previous Circular 37) regulates the unification of prices for health insurance medical examination and treatment services between hospitals of the same rank nationwide and guides the application of prices and payment of medical examination and treatment costs in some cases, will adjust 88 medical service prices, including 6 medical examination prices according to 5 hospital and commune health station ranks, 42 bed-day prices according to hospital and health station ranks, 40 technical service prices, mainly diagnostic services such as ultrasound, X-ray, MRI, CT scanner, PET-CT...
The price of medical examination will be reduced by 15-20% (the price of medical examination will be reduced from 4,800 to 5,900 VND at all hospital levels). The price of examination at special and grade 1 hospitals will be reduced to only 33,100 VND, the current price is 39,000 VND. Similarly, the price at grade 2 hospitals will be 29,600 VND instead of 35,000 VND. The price of examination at commune health stations and grade 4 hospitals will also be reduced from 29,000 VND to 23,300 VND.
At the same time, paraclinical services such as electric tonsillectomy, endoscopic gastric perforation surgery, ENT endoscopy services, etc. are also adjusted to reduce prices.
Specifically,Tonsillectomy with electric knife reduced from 3.6 million to 2 million VND, AVF surgery reduced from 7.2 million to 3.6 million VND, Mycobacterium tuberculosis identification and RMP Xpert resistance testing reduced by 6 times, ENT endoscopy reduced by more than 2 times.
Ear, nose and throat endoscopy services are reduced by more than 100,000 VND, ultrasound is reduced by 8,000 VND, digital X-ray of 1 film is reduced by 5,000 VND; CT scanner up to 32 rows without contrast agent is reduced from 536,000 VND to 512,000 VND, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with contrast agent is reduced to 2.2 million VND...
In the immediate future, because the health insurance premium rate cannot be adjusted, to ensure fund balance, the Ministry of Health will adjust the prices of some common services such as medical examination, screening, X-ray, diagnosis, ultrasound, beds, etc.
This Circular applies to inpatients or outpatients from the time the Circular takes effect.
