The Ministry of Health has just issued Document No. 2909/BYT-BH on implementing initial registration for medical examination and treatment, transferring medical examination and treatment facilities and re-examination appointments to the Departments of Health of provinces and centrally run cities and medical examination and treatment facilities nationwide.
The content of the document should focus on specifically guiding the transfer of patients between medical examination and treatment facilities in the area, including medical examination and treatment facilities of ministries and branches and according to technical and technical decentralization, avoiding overloading at a number of establishments, ensuring a balance between local medical examination and treatment facilities and medical examination and treatment facilities of ministries and branches in the area.
The regulation on initial health insurance (HI) registration and patient transfer does not require additional procedures, causing inconvenience to patients, ensuring convenience in the process of receiving and treating patients. Transferring patients between medical examination and treatment facilities and general regulation and management in the area, actively promoting the role of units assigned to leading specialties and high-tech specialties.
Note the instructions for transferring patients between general and specialized medical examination and treatment facilities, between technical expertise levels must be consistent with the technical expertise decentralization of local medical examination and treatment facilities, the capacity and strengths of medical examination and treatment facilities, avoid overload and frequent transfer of patients.
Coordinate with the Department of Health of provinces and centrally run cities with border areas to unify the transfer and reception of patients between medical examination and treatment facilities in border areas to facilitate patients' medical examination and treatment near their place of residence, work, study and are not affected by administrative boundaries between border provinces.
Regularly hold meetings on the work of health insurance patients and learn from experience, promptly adjust to suit 5 practical requirements in the locality. Direct health insurance medical examination and treatment facilities in the area to regularly transfer patients for professional reasons (if any) to proactively coordinate, discuss, and request professional support to improve medical examination and treatment capacity, meet treatment requirements, and serve patients.
Regarding the responsibility of medical examination and treatment facilities, in this document, the Ministry of Health requests urgent training for health workers on new regulations of the law on health insurance, especially regulations on procedures and procedures for medical examination and treatment, contents of appointment cards for re-examination, patient transfer cards; carefully study to properly implement the provisions of Circular 01/2025/TT-BYT and Appendices No. I, II, III, IV issued with it to ensure the rights of patients.
Guiding and consulting patients to properly comply with regulations on transferring medical examination and treatment facilities, using re-examination appointment papers, and transfer papers to medical examination and treatment facilities to ensure the rights of patients. Medical examination and treatment facilities are responsible for not providing guidance or incomplete guidance, causing inconvenience, affecting the rights of health insurance patients.
According to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 12 of Circular 01/2025/TT-BYT, the Transfer Form for medical examination and treatment facilities is valid for 10 working days, from the date of signing.
According to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 12 of Circular 01/2025/TT-BYT, health insurance participants who suffer from diseases, groups of diseases and cases specified in Appendix III issued with this Circular are allowed to use a Transfer Form valid for 01 year from the date of signing.
Thus, for cases where health insurance participants have diseases, groups of diseases and cases specified in Appendix No. III and according to professional requirements need to transfer to a medical examination and treatment facility for long-term examination and treatment, the medical examination and treatment facility transfer facility and the validity of the Medical Examination and Treatment Center Travel Certificate is 01 year from the date of signing.
