Most members of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Committee support a proposal to stop overseas Taiwanese from suspending NHI premium payments and immediately resuming coverage upon returning to Taiwan, committee Executive Secretary Chou Shu-wan (周淑婉) said on Friday.
The committee convened earlier that day to review those and several other measures proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to remedy the NHI’s budget deficit also in principle supports raising the highest premium band, which has remained at NT$182,000 (US$6,495) for 12 years, to NT$219,500, she said.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) in late 2020 said that
/ 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
Taiwanese who have been removed from household registration records due to the COVID-19 pandemic can re-enroll into the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme upon returning to Taiwan without the normal six-month wait, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that the pandemic has made international travel more difficult, so the rights and interests of some overseas Taiwanese might have been harmed, as they could not return home.
Government agencies have made adjustments to regulations to reduce possible damage to the rights and interests of overseas Taiwanese, Chen said.
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