PUBLISHED : 19 Oct 2024 at 04:00
The Private Hospital Association (PHA) yesterday stood firm on its demand that the Social Security Office (SSO) must raise the reimbursement rate for the cost of an inpatient with expensive disease care to 15,000 baht per case.
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PUBLISHED : 19 Oct 2024 at 04:00
The Private Hospital Association (PHA) yesterday stood firm on its demand that the Social Security Office (SSO) must raise the reimbursement rate for the cost of an inpatient with expensive disease care to 15,000 baht per case.
Dr Chalerm Harnphanich, a former president of the PHA, said on Thursday after the first meeting of a special subcommittee on the criteria and payment rates to contract hospitals under the Social Security System (SSS) that the average medical costs endured by the hospitals have always been higher than the rate the SSO reimburses.
Regarding Labour Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn’s earlier vow to push for an increase in the reimbursement rate of inpatient care to 12,000 baht per…