The National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) on Saturday warned the public against fraudulent text messages asking for personal information, bank account numbers and passwords to renew National Health Insurance (NHI) cards.
People have reported receiving texts in the name of the NHIA with links to fake Health Passbook pages that request information to verify the devices, NHIA associate researcher Chen Tzu-yu (陳孜瑜) said.
Chen said that the Health Passbook, which is available on the NHIA app and its Web site, would never ask users for bank information.
As of Wednesday last week, the app has been downloaded 1,696 times, and 8.01 million people
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe government is to discuss preventing long-term expatriates who have suspended their National Health Insurance （NHI） from immediately resuming coverage upon returning to Taiwan, the National Health Insurance Administration （NHIA） said on Tuesday.
The government is to discuss preventing long-term expatriates who have suspended their National Health Insurance (NHI) from immediately resuming coverage upon returning to Taiwan, the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) said on Tuesday.
An administration meeting on Friday is to cover copayments for medical services under the NHI system, rules for overseas Taiwanese seeking medical treatment and an increase to the highest NHI premium band, NHIA Director-General Lee Po-chang (李伯璋) said.
Lee’s statements came after Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said in a media interview that the administration would this year raise drug prices and adjust the copayment system
The average exposure to medical radiation of Taiwanese has slightly increased to 3.44 millisievert (mSv) this year from 3.11 mSv in 2016, the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) said yesterday.
Despite the increase, the average amount remains much lower than 100mSv, the maximum amount suggested as safe by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, it said.
The agency made the remarks as it introduced a new function on its mobile app, My Health Bank, that allows users to estimate their annual exposure to medical radiation.
People are exposed to several natural sources of radiation, such as cosmic radiation, and radiation released from
LOW LEVELS: Only a fraction of those who were exposed to medical radiation received doses that a US doctors’ association considers potentially harmful, an expert saidBy Lin Hui-chin / Staff reporter