What are the cases not eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam 2023? – Phuoc An (Thai Binh, Vietnam)
Cases not eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam 2023 (Internet image)
Cases not eligible for health insurance benefits in Vietnam in 2023 include:
- Cases specified in Clause 1 of Article 21 of the Law on Health Insurance in which costs have been paid by the state budget.
- Convalescence at sanatoria or convalescence establishments.
- Medical check-up.
- Prenatal tests and diagnosis for non-treatment purposes.
- Use of obstetric supportive techniques, family planning services or abortion services, except for cases of discontinuation of pregnancy due to fetal or maternal diseases.
- Use of aesthetic services.
- Treatment of squint, myopia and eye refraction defect except for the children under age 6.
- Use of prostheses including artificial limbs, eyes, teeth, glasses, hearing aids or movement aids in medical examination, treatment and function rehabilitation.
- Medical examination, treatment and functional rehabilitation in case of disasters.
- Medical examination and treatment for addiction to drugs, alcohol or other habit-forming substances.
- Medical assessment, forensic examination, forensic mental examination.
- Participation in clinical trials or scientific research.
(Article 23 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008, as amended in 2014)
Persons eligible for health insurance in Vietnam include:
(1) The group whose insurance are paid by the employers and employees, including:
- Employees on indefinite or at least full three-month contracts; salaried business managers; officials and civil servants (hereinafter referred to as employees).
- Part-time officers in communes, wards and towns under the regulations of the law.
(2) The group of the insured whose insurance is paid by the social insurance organizations, including:
- Persons receiving monthly retirement pensions and compensation for loss of capacity for work
- Persons receiving monthly social insurance pensions due to occupational accidents or diseases or diseases needing long-term treatment; beneficiaries at the age of 80 or above;
- Officers in communes, wards and towns who have left employment and been receiving monthly social insurance benefits.
- Persons receiving unemployment benefits.
(3) The group of the insured whose insurance is paid by the State budget, including:
- 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 insured prescribed at point i this Clause;
- Relatives of the insured prescribed in point a clause 3 this Article;
- 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.
(4) The group of the insured whose insurance are supported by the State budget, including:
- Members of households living above the poverty line;
- Students.
(5) Group of the household insured including household members except for the ones prescribed above
(Article 12 of the Law on Health Insurance 2008, as amended in 2014)
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