Ministry plans to end treatment of Covid-19 as emergency
The Ministry of Public Health will no longer consider Covid-19 infected people as emergency patients and it also will set the compensation rates for infection testing that the National Health Security Office (NHSO) will pay to hospitals, Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul said on Thursday.
If the RT-PCR method is used, the hospitals will be paid 900 baht and 1,100 baht, depending on the test method, while compensation for antigen test kits is 250 and 350 baht, depending on the method of the test kit.
There will be an adjustment in the rate of treatment in hospitels at 1,000 baht per day, similar to home isolation.
It will be effective from March 1, Anutin said.
People who are infected can still receive treatment for free according to their health insurance rights, including gold card, social security or civil servant welfare.
