Price Rates for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Services Covered by the Health Insurance Fund
According to Clause 1, Article 3 of Circular 16/2021/TT-BYT, the regulations on the price of SARS-CoV-2 testing services within the payment scope of the Health Insurance Fund are as follows:
- Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Ag test:
+ The service price includes direct costs and labor costs as stipulated in Column 1, Section I, Appendix I issued together with this Circular, plus the cost of SARS-CoV-2 test reagents as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 2 of this Circular. The maximum payment is not more than 109,700 VND/test.
- SARS-CoV-2 testing by automatic or semi-automatic immunoassay machines:
+ The service price includes direct costs and labor costs as stipulated in Column 1, Section II, Appendix I issued together with this Circular, plus the cost of SARS-CoV-2 test reagents as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 2 of this Circular. The maximum payment is not more than 186,600 VND/test.
- SARS-CoV-2 testing by Realtime RT-PCR technique:
+ Individual sample case: The service price includes direct costs and labor costs as stipulated in Column 1, Section III, Appendix I issued together with this Circular, plus the cost of SARS-CoV-2 test reagents as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 2 of this Circular. The maximum payment is not more than 518,400 VND/test.
+ Pooled sample case: The service price includes direct costs and labor costs as stipulated in Column 1, Section IV, Appendix I issued together with this Circular, plus the cost of SARS-CoV-2 test reagents as stipulated in Clause 3, Article 2 of this Circular, in which the testing reagent costs are divided equally among the pooled samples. The maximum payment does not exceed the price of pooled sample testing as stipulated in Column 2, Appendix I issued together with this Circular.
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