Are people undergone forensic examination, forensic mental examination eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam?

Are people undergone forensic examination, forensic mental examination eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 13 Article 23 of the Law on Health Insurance in 2008 (amended by Clause 16 Article 1 of the Law on amendments to the Law on Health Insurance in 2014) stipulating cases not eligible for health insurance benefits:

Cases not eligible for health insurance benefits

1. Cases specified in Clause 1 of Article 21 in which costs have been paid by the state budget.

2. Convalescence at sanatoria or convalescence establishments.

3. Medical check-up.

4. Prenatal tests and diagnosis for non-treatment purposes.

5. Use of obstetric supportive techniques, family planning services or abortion services, except for cases of discontinuation of pregnancy due to fetal or maternal diseases.

6. Use of aesthetic services.

7. Treatment of squint, myopia and eye refraction defect except for the children under age 6.

8. Use of prostheses including artificial limbs, eyes, teeth, glasses, hearing aids or movement aids in medical examination, treatment and function rehabilitation.

9. Medical examination, treatment and functional rehabilitation in case of disasters.

11. Medical examination and treatment for addiction to drugs, alcohol or other habit-forming substances.

13. Medical assessment, forensic examination, forensic mental examination.

14. Participation in clinical trials or scientific research.

As regulated above, people undergone forensic examination, forensic mental examination are not eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam.

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Who are eligible for health insurance paid by the State budget in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance in 2008 (amended by Clause 6 Article 1 of the Law on amendments to the Law on Health Insurance in 2014 and supplemented by Clause 2 Article 32 of the Law on the Participation of Security Forces in Safeguarding Security and Order at the Grassroots Level in 2023), the group of the insured whose insurance is paid by the State budget includes:

- Commissioned officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned soldiers on active duty;

- Commissioned police officers and non-commissioned police officers; police students, non-commissioned police officers or soldiers on fixed term contracts;

- Ciphers whose salaries are the same as the salaries as the servicemen;

- Cipher students whose benefits are the same as the benefits of students in military or police academies.

- Officers in communes, wards and towns who have left employment and been receiving monthly pensions funded by the State budget.

- Persons no longer receiving compensation for loss of capacity for work and being receiving monthly pensions funded by the State budget;

- Persons performing meritorious services in the wars, war veterans;

- Incumbent deputies of the National Assembly or the People’s Councils at all levels;

- Children under the age of 6;

- Persons receiving monthly social protection pensions;

- Poor household members, ethnics living in regions facing socio-economic difficulties, persons living in regions facing extreme socio-economic difficulties; persons living in island communes or districts.

- Relatives of persons performing meritorious services in the wars such as biology parents, husbands, wives or children of revolutionary martyrs; persons rearing revolutionary martyrs;

- Relatives of persons performing meritorious services in the wars, except for the following insured:

+ Relatives of persons performing meritorious services in the wars such as biology parents, husbands, wives or children of revolutionary martyrs;

+ Persons rearing revolutionary martyrs;

- Relatives of the insured prescribed as follows:

+ Commissioned officers, professional soldiers, non-commissioned soldiers on active duty;

+ Commissioned police officers and non-commissioned police officers; police students, non-commissioned police officers or soldiers on fixed term contracts;

+ Ciphers whose salaries are the same as the salaries as the servicemen;

+ Cipher students whose benefits are the same as the benefits of students in military or police academies.

- Persons who have donated body parts under the regulations of the law;

- Foreigners studying in Vietnam that are granted scholarships funded by the Vietnam State budget.

How many health insurance cards are issued for one person in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Claause 2 Article 16 of the Law on Health Insurance in 2008:

Health insurance cards

1. A health insurance card is granted to an insured as a basis for enjoying health insurance benefits under this Law.

2. Everyone may be granted only one health insurance card.

3. The effective dates of the health insurance cards are prescribed as follows:

a) The health insurance cards of the insured prescribed in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 Article 12 of this Law who purchase health insurance for the first time shall be effective from the payment for health insurance;

b) The second health insurance cards and the following ones of the insured who continuously purchase health insurance shall be effective from the expiry of the previous ones.

c) The insurance cards of the insured, prescribed in Clause 4 and Clause 5 Article 12 of this Law who purchase health insurance from the effective date of this Law or discontinuously purchase the health insurance for at least 3 months in the financial year, shall be effective after 30 days from the payment for the health insurance.

d) The insurance cards of the children under age 6 shall be effective until they are full 72 months old. The insurance cards of full-72-month-old child children before their school year begins shall be effective until September 30 in such year.

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As regulated above, one person may be granted only one health insurance card.

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