Covid-19 treatment is not free, health insurance will pay

SGGPO June 14, 2023 18:49

Moving Covid-19 from group A infectious disease to group B is only a change in payment for treatment costs, while the Covid-19 treatment regimen and method remain the same.

On the afternoon of June 14, at a discussion on medical communication, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong said that for the Covid-19 epidemic, when it changes from group A to group B infectious disease, treatment for Covid-19 patients will no longer be free, but if the patient has a health insurance card, they will be paid according to health insurance regulations.

"This is just a change in payment, while the treatment regimen and method for Covid-19 remains the same regardless of whether the epidemic is group A or B," Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Lien Huong emphasized, adding that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice are advising the Prime Minister to decide to move Covid-19 from group A to group B, expected to happen this June.

Health insurance will pay for Covid-19 treatment costs when it turns into a group B disease

Meanwhile, Mr. Phan Trong Lan, Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine, said that Vietnam's infectious disease surveillance system always monitors the epidemic situation synchronously. Therefore, when transferring Covid-19 from group A to group B, according to the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the classification is mainly based on pathology. In Vietnam, the epidemic in group A is mainly prevented by social administrative measures, when moving to group B, social administrative control activities are eliminated. In other words, if it is group A, in addition to the health sector, there will be ministries and sectors participating in the fight against the epidemic, but when moving to group B, it is mainly the health sector that implements prevention measures.

According to the Ministry of Health, in the first 6 months of 2023, the whole country recorded more than 85,000 Covid-19 cases. On average, our country has 17,000 cases per month, down 8.5 times compared to 2021 and down 48 times compared to 2022. The whole country also recorded 20 deaths from Covid-19, the mortality rate dropped sharply to 0.02% (in 2021 it was 1.86%, in 2022 it was 0.1%). The whole country has also vaccinated over 226 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines of all kinds. The rate of basic doses is 1.4 times higher than the world average. The rate of booster shots is 2 times higher than the world average.

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/khong-mien-phi-dieu-tri-covid-19-bhyt-se-chi-tra-post693671.html