Adjusting hospital fees will also balance people’s ability to pay, harmonize the interests of service providers and users, timing factors as well as the Government’s roadmap.
The Ministry of Health is building a new price list of 10,000 medical services according to the above calculation. To build this price, in March the Ministry of Health will issue technical and economic norms as a basis for price calculation.
Hospitals evaluate the increase in medical examination and treatment prices with health insurance to only meet the salaries of civil servants when the basic salary increases. Over the years, hospital fees have not been calculated correctly according to the needs of hospitals. Currently, hospital fees paid by health insurance only account for 4/7 elements of the service price structure (no management costs, asset depreciation, training and scientific research, information technology…).
From July 1, 2023, the price adjustment of medical examination and treatment services will be made based on the base salary (base salary increased from 1.49 million to 1.8 million VND/month).
The Ministry of Health has issued Circular 22/2023/TT-BYT effective from November 2023 regulating the uniformity of prices for medical examination and treatment services covered by health insurance among hospitals of the same class nationwide and guiding the application of prices and payments. Payment of medical examination and treatment costs covered by health insurance in some cases.
According to Circular 22/2023/TT-BYT, prices for medical examination and treatment services covered by health insurance include: Prices for medical examination and consultation services; bed day service price; prices for technical and testing services; Additional notes of some technical services. There are more than 1,900 price lists of medical examination and consultation services whose prices have been adjusted to increase by about 9% compared to the level issued in 2019.
From July 1, 2024, facilities must publicly disclose information about medical service prices at their units on the website (if any) or in an appropriate form and update the price database.
Public medical examination and treatment facilities decide on their own the prices of examination and treatment services upon request and must declare and publicly post the prices of services upon request.
Private medical examination and treatment facilities have the right to decide and must declare prices and publicly post the prices of medical examination and treatment services. Medical examination and treatment establishments are invested in the public-private partnership method to determine service prices. medical examination and treatment according to the law on investment in the public-private partnership method.