THE
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom – Happiness
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No:
95-CP
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Hanoi, August 27, 1994
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DECREE
ON
COLLECTION OF PARTIAL HOSPITAL FEE
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on
Organization of the Government on the 30th of September, 1992;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECREES:
Article 1.-
The medical examination and treatment institutions within the State medical
system are entitled to collect part of the hospital fee to increase the budget
for ensuring the quality of the examination and treatment of diseases for the
people.
Article 2.-
The partial fee is the expenditure on the medical examination and treatment
collected from the service provided for the outpatients, and the hospital days
and beds provided for the inpatients.
Article 3.-
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a/ Persons who are not insured
for medical care, or who are not exempted from partial hospital fee;
b/ Persons who are insured for
medical care, but who wish to receive medical examination and treatment
according to their personal requirements.
2. Persons entitled to exemption
from partial hospital fee:
a/ The disabled orphans, and
lonely elderly people;
b/ Children under six years of
age;
c/ Persons affected with
schizophrenia, epilepsy, leprosy, and tuberculosis tested positive in BK;
d/ Patients in the communes
recognized as highlands by the Committee for Nationalities and Mountainous
Regions;
e/ Persons engaged in land
reclamation to build new economic zones within three years after their arrival
in the new places;
g/ Patients who are too poor.
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4. The persons beneficiaries of
preferential policies and who are receiving monthly allowances, shall have
their Medical Insurance Cards bought by the direct controlling Labor-War
Invalids and Social Affairs agency.
Article 4.-
The medical examination and treatment institutions have the responsibility to
ensure the necessary essential medicine, blood, serum, chemicals and other
dispensable materials according to the list prescribed by the Ministry of
Health, and not to let the patients procure for themselves.
Article 5.-
1. The Government assigns the
Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and the Pricing Committee of the
Government to set a price frame for the partial hospital fee. Basing themselves
on this framework to be issued by the inter-ministries, the Presidents of the
People's Committees in the provinces and cities directly under the Central
Government shall set the partial hospital fee to be collected by the medical
examination and treatment institutions under local management. The Minister of
Health shall set the partial hospital fee for the medical examination and
treatment institutions directly attached to the Ministry of Health.
2. The rate of the partial
hospital fee shall be based on the revenue made according to each service with
regard to the outpatients, and according to the hospital days and beds with
regard to the inpatients.
Article 6.-
1. The revenue from the partial
hospital fee is a revenue of the State budget to be used according to the
following regulations:
- 85% of the revenue shall be
used for the concerned medical examination and treatment institution, aimed at
supplementing the expenditures in medicine, blood, serum, chemicals, X-ray
films, equipment, material and medical appliances for timely service of the
patients.
- 15% of the revenue shall be
used to remunerate the government officials and employees who display a high
sense of responsibility toward the patients, and who accomplish well their
professional duty.
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3. The vouchers and receipts on
the collection of partial hospital fee shall be made according to a unified
form issued by the Ministry of Finance. All revenues must be done by the
Finance-Accountancy Section of the medical examination and treatment
institution. Quarterly and annually, these institutions must settle the
accounts of revenues and expenditures in hospital fee with the controlling
agency and the financial agency of the same level, according to the time table
of the accountancy regime.
Article 7.-
The persons who violate the provisions of this Decree shall, depending on the
extent of the violation, be disciplined, subject to administrative fine or
investigated for penal liability.
Article 8.-
This Decree takes effect as from the date of its signing and replaces Decision
No. 45-HDBT on the 24th of April, 1989 of the Council of Ministers on the
collection of partial hospital fee.
Article 9.-
The Minister of Health, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids
and Social Affairs, the Head of the Pricing Committee of the Government shall
guide and organize the implementation of this Decree.
Article 10.-
The Ministers, the Heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the Heads of the
agencies attached to the Government, and the Presidents of the People's
Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government
shall have to implement this Decree.
ON
BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
THE PRIME MINISTER
Vo Van Kiet