The Japan International Cooperation Agency, Ministry of Health and Vietnam Social Security signed a record on a project to improve the management of health insurance payment in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) - The Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), Ministry of Health (MOH) and Vietnam Social Security (VSS) on July 11 signeda record on the discussions of a project to improve the management of healthinsurance payment in Vietnam.
The project, Development and strengthening of themanagement of provider payment methods and basic health service packagereimbursed by Health Insurance Fund in Vietnam, will be implemented for 2years, starting from October.
Universal health coverage and universal health insurance aretargets set by the Vietnamese Government in the National Strategy forProtection, Care and Improvement of People’s Health in the period of 2011- 2020with a vision to 2030.
In order to achieve these targets, one of the essential solutionsis to establish an appropriate health insurance system. Currently, healthinsurance coverage reached 81.7 per cent of Vietnam’s population, half of whichis comprised of poor citizens and other groups whose insurance is paid out ofthe State budget.
About 20 million Vietnamese people have not yet enrolled in thegovernment-sponsored health insurance scheme and many of them are disadvantagedor are facing difficulties. The major challenge is how to provide necessary andsufficient healthcare services to all Vietnamese and increase the rate ofenrollment while maintaining financial sustainability of the health insurancesystem.
Under the project, Japanese experts and Vietnamese counterpartswill focus on identifying the optimal provider payment method, developing abenefit package based on situational analysis, improving the Health InsuranceClaim Review Information System and increasing enrollment in social healthinsurance.
The optimal payment method should contribute to improvinghealthcare quality, ensuring equitable payment among healthcare serviceproviders and increasing the effectiveness of management and use of the healthinsurance fund.-VNA
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