Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to raise the premiums for the Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan), roughly two months after the Supreme Court annulled his earlier decision to do so.
Multiple enterprises have closed down or reduced production scale due to the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs.
Proposed amendments to the Health Insurance Law will add multiple benefits for insured patients, according to speakers at a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 18.
Despite the number of people covered by health insurance rising in Vietnam, the abuse of health services and the health insurance fund is still a challenge for the country.
Ho Chi Minh City's agencies are increasing inspections of healthcare facilities that abuse the health insurance fund by prescribing needless tests and overcharging.
More than 17 million schoolchildren and students nationwide have joined health insurance so far, accounting for 95.3 percent of the total, according to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS).
As much as 91.2 percent of the population in the northern province of Vinh Phuc have joined health insurance, surpassing the target the locality has set for 2020.
Developing grassroots healthcare to prevent non-infectious diseases is the top task of the health-population target programme for 2016-2020, according to Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien.
For four years, Le Thi Binh and her husband tried to have a baby. But it was not until the couple received free in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from a charity programme based in HCM City that their dream became a reality.
Several new-generation drugs for hepatitis C treatment will be covered by the health insurance fund as part of a recently-released circular by the Ministry of Health.
An estimated 800,000 people in Vietnam suffer from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which requires expensive polysomnography and respiratory polygraphy screening tests.
As many as 89 percent of HIV/AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral drug (ARV) treatment in Vietnam have signed up for health insurance cards so far, with the figure expected to exceed 90 percent by the end of this year.
The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee convened its 11th plenary session in the central province of Da Nang on October 9 in preparation for the upcoming sixth meeting of the 14th legislature.
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