Almost 50 million people to get new health insurance cards

About 50 million people will be provided with new health insurance cards in early 2010, according to the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).
About 50 million people will be provided with new health insurance cards in early 2010, according to the Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).

Next year, VSI will also implement a new regulation that calls for different rates of premiums depending on levels of categories of hospital or the kind of the insured.

VSI expects to reach the targets of 30 percent in 2011, 60 percent in 2013 and 100 percent of health care providers following the new regulation in 2015.

Currently, the Health Ministry and health insurance office are conducting a research on a new payment due to diagnosis and applying it in some pilot clinics./.

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