Medical insurance card application from July 2025

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 15, Article 1, Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance 2024 (effective from July 1, 2025) stipulates the dossier for issuing health insurance cards as follows:

a) Declaration of health insurance participation of agency, organization, unit, individual, household for first-time health insurance participants;

b) The list of subjects participating in health insurance as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 12 of this Law shall be prepared by the employer within 30 days from the date the employee is a subject of health insurance. In case the health insurance participant is a subject specified in Point b and Point d, Clause 1, Article 12 of this Law and submits it himself, the dossier is the declaration specified in Point a of this Clause and must be submitted to the social insurance agency within 30 days from the date of determination as a health insurance participant;

c) List of subjects specified in Clauses 2, 3, 4 and 5, Article 12 of this Law determined by the People's Committee at the commune level by household, except for subjects specified in Point d and Point d of this Clause;

d) List of subjects participating in health insurance managed by the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and other ministries and branches specified in Point n, Clause 3, Point b, Clause 4, Article 12 of this Law established by educational institutions and vocational training institutions;

d) List of subjects participating in health insurance managed by the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security as prescribed in Points a, c, e and h, Clause 1, Points a, b, c, d, l and n, Clause 3, Point b, Clause 4, Article 12 of this Law and list of subjects specified in Point i, Clause 1, Article 12 of this Law as prescribed by the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security.

Thus, from July 1, 2025, the health insurance application will follow the above regulations.