Health insurance

Revised Health Insurance Law helps reduce the cost burden for cancer patients

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Ho Chi Minh City - After the amended Health Insurance Law (HI) took effect from July 1, many cancer patients have seen significant reductions in medical examination and treatment costs.

Many people are surprised by health insurance benefits when medical examination on holidays

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Many people believe that medical examination and treatment on holidays will not be paid by health insurance (HI).

Social insurance and health insurance contribution levels have many changes from July 2026

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Many new regulations on social insurance (SI) and health insurance (HI) contributions and benefits officially take effect.

Health insurance referral: Compulsory documents patients need to know

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Patients need to prepare all documents according to regulations when carrying out procedures for transferring to health insurance (HI) to ensure their rights.

PET/CT scan costs 20-25 million VND, patients expect health insurance support

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The proposal to expand health insurance coverage for PET/CT scans is expected by many patients because it helps reduce the burden of cancer treatment costs.

Rushing to higher-level hospitals for examination because they thought they would be 100% reimbursed by health insurance

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The new regulations on health insurance have caused many people to flock to upper-level hospitals for medical examination and treatment, because they think they will be paid 100% of the costs.

New points on health insurance policy that people need to know from July 1, 2026

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From July 1, 2026, many HI policy contents directly related to the rights of people to medical examination and treatment will continue to be implemented.

Can Tho proposes clarifying the right to inspect health insurance payments of social insurance agencies

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Can Tho - The City Department of Home Affairs believes that it is necessary to maintain and clarify regulations on health insurance payment inspection by social insurance agencies.

Vietnam Social Security tightens management of collection accounts, avoiding delays in recording insurance payment process

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Vietnam Social Security has just issued a document requesting to review the collection accounts and ensure the rights of participants on the National Public Service Portal.

Proposal for health insurance to pay an additional PET/CT scan price of 25 million VND/time

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The Ministry of Health proposes to expand health insurance payments for PET/CT scans and many modern cancer tests.

From July 1, people participating in health insurance for 5 consecutive years will have their co-payment exemption limit increased

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When the base salary increases from July 1, 2026, the benefits of people participating in health insurance for 5 consecutive years also change.

Changes in health insurance referrals from July 1 are not known to everyone

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From July 1, 2026, health insurance tuyến transfer regulations have many important changes, expanding medical examination and treatment benefits.

3 cases of health insurance medical examination and treatment have increased hospital fee payments

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From July 1st, the hospital fee payment level for health insurance medical examination and treatment will be adjusted to increase for some cases below.

No need for referral letters, people with 62 diseases enjoy full health insurance benefits from July 1

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From July 1, 2026, people with 62 dangerous and rare diseases will be directly examined at specialized levels without a referral letter but will still fully enjoy health insurance benefits.

List of 62 diseases that do not require referral papers but are still fully entitled to health insurance from July 1st

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From July 1st, according to the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance, health insurance participants will enjoy more benefits when seeking medical examination and treatment.