Advice on health insurance
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Japanese officials will be invited to Thailand to explain how their health insurance system helps the government control medical expenses - by requiring patients to make co-payments depending on the disease, Dr Winai Sawadiworn, secretary-general of the N
The Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Japanese Health Ministry will help the government conduct seminars to adjust universal healthcare and other schemes. Japan publishes a fee schedule that shows patients how much to pay for services they need such as CT scans, X-rays, computer X-rays and MRI.
“There are mean prices for these medical services and conditions such as how many times patients can use a service. We have to impose criteria because such medical equipment is expensive,’’ he said.
The new system would be tried on cancer patients at Songkhla Nakarin and Srinakarin hospitals, he said.
