Ministry of Health clarifies health insurance
Private hospitals that have signed health-insurance contracts with the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) will continue the contracts next year. However, private healthcare facilities must now have their classifications authorised by the Ministry of Health.
The agency requested private healthcare facilities to add health ministry decisions on the levels of service and technical classifications of their facilities. He said this information would serve as a foundation to identify health-insurance payment levels according to the Health Insurance Law.
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It is one of the regulations in the Penal Code No. 100/2015/QH13, which will come into effect from the beginning of next year. The regulations were announced by the VSS at a press meeting on December 6.
People will be fined VND100-VND200 million, or sentenced to a prison term of 1-5 years if they have organised rings to appropriate 100-500 million VND from the social insurance fund or caused losses worth VND200-VND500 million.
They will be sentenced to 5-10 years’ imprisonment if they have appropriated more than VND500 million.
Owner of enterprises that refuse or use trickery to avoid paying social insurance and health insurance for workers will be fined VND50-VND200 million or sentenced to prison for three months to one year depending of the level of violation.
If they repeat the violations more than twice or try to avoid paying social insurance by VND1 billion they will be fined VND200-VND500 million or sentenced to six months to three years’ imprisonment.
They will be sentenced to a prison term of 2-7 years if they avoid paying social insurance by more than VND1 billion (US$44,000).
By the end of October this year, the total social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance debt was VND16.6 trillion (US$730.6 million), a decrease of VND64 billion (US$2.8 million) compared with the previous month, according to the VSS.
