Hanoi (VNA)ꦆ - Last year the Ministry of Finance issued a decree setting new fees for 1,887 hospital services, including check-ups, beds, and surgery.
From March 1 nearly 1,900 different services and products at public hospitals will become around 30 percent more expensive.
The new tariff regime will see patients pay for several things that were earlier subsidised by the Government - like power and water, maintenance of equipment and waste treatment facilities, and training and research.
The ministry's decision is expected to benefit health insurance firms.
Insurance sector insiders said awareness of the importance of buying insurance, particularly to cover health, has improved significantly in recent years.
A spokesperson for a non-life insurance firm in HCM City said in 2015 his company's health insurance turnover rose 37 percent from the previous year, and would continue to increase this year, especially with the new hospital rates.
Health insurance has for several years been one of the top selling products for non-life-insurance, and even life-insurance, firms.
Analysts expect the sharp increase in fees for 1,900 health services to encourage more people to buy health insurance.
To tap the opportunity, insurance firms plan to launch a clutch of new health products, including protection against accidents and injury and critical illness.
Besides, many insurance companies have established close ties with major hospitals so that they would accept their insurance cards.
Analysts say health insurance is always the most profitable segment for insurance firms, who focus their resources on fully exploiting this.
But they say insurance providers should co-operate with hospitals to reduce administrative procedures for insurance beneficiaries.
If they do this there could well be more takers for health insurance, they add.-VNA
Social and health insurance is expected to cover 72.4 million people in 2016, heard a conference of the Vietnam Social Insurance in Hanoi on January 18, to put forth tasks for the sector this year.
Pham Luong Son, Head of the Health Insurance Policy Board under the Vietnam Social Insurance, spoke to social media about benefits of a new policy of health insurance at the district level.
Pham Van Tac, Director General of the Department of Organisation and Personnel, spoke to Suc khoe va Doi song (Health & Life) newspaper about the ministry's plan to renew its public services.
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The PM called for closer, broader, and more effective cooperation with Vietnamese partners, guided by the principles of mutual benefit, joint efforts, shared outcomes, and common development, including promoting stronger public-private partnerships and collaboration with businesses.
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This case marks the ninth fetal cardiac intervention conducted in HCM City, and it was considered the most technically demanding to date due to the fetus’s extremely early gestational age and the severity of the condition as diagnosed with aortic atresia.
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Vietnam’s traditional medicine took centre stage at the International Congress Biopharm Nonclinical Development, BioNCiD 2025, held on May 25-26 in the Cuban city of Varadero, amid growing global interest in sustainable healthcare solutions.
Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 25,000 COVID-19 cases have been recorded globally over the past month. Notably, from January 1 to May 10, Thailand reported nearly 54,000 infections and 16 deaths. The rise in cases in Thailand has been linked to the spread of XBB.1.16 subvariant.
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