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NEWS | 16 Jul 2021
The Government of Viet Nam specifies how Covid-19 related consultations and tests will be financed by the Health Insurance
Vietnam
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DOCUMENT | 14 Jul 2021
Review of health financing, expenditure and service delivery in Zambia
Zambia
Ensuring adequate access to quality health services, whether preventative or curative, is critical for a country to ensure that its population attain better health outcomes. In this context, universal health coverage (UHC), embedded within sustainable development...
NEWS | 08 Jul 2021
Ethiopia Essential Health Services Package – informed by evidence on cost and cost-effectiveness
Ethiopia
To make progress towards UHC, countries should prioritize and clearly define the type and mix of health services that should be provided in response to population needs. To ensure that the package can be funded and provided as planned, the resources needed to...
NEWS | 17 Jun 2021
Malaysia will not hike charges for Covid-19 treatment at private hospitals
Malaysia
Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh said hospitals do not have the prerogative to raise admission charges and direct deposits solely due to shifting demands. Private hospitals have been admitting Covid-19 patients...
DOCUMENT | 03 Jun 2021
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational GovernmentFinancing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia- Health PolicyPlus
Indonesia
The U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+) project conducted analyses to understand the impact of COVID-19 on subnational government budgets and households’ healthcare use and spending. This work was undertaken in support of the...
DOCUMENT | 03 Jun 2021
National Health Accounts Estimates for India 2015-16
India
This report provides healthcare expenditures in India based on National Health Accounts Guidelines for India, 2016 (with refinements where required) that adhere to System of Health Accounts 2011 (SHA 2011), a global standard framework for producing health accounts.
NEWS | 03 Jun 2021
The Impact of Covid 19 on Subnational Government Financing and Household Financial Risk Protection in Indonesia
Indonesia
Covid 19 has exposed gaps in the budgetary allocations of the subnational governments in Indonesia that resulted in increase of out-pocket health expenditure and catastrophic household spending on health expenditure for health care services. A recent study by Health...
NEWS | 03 Jun 2021
Strengthening health financing response in COVID-19
India
The COVID-19 war and commitment towards UHC hinge on the criticality of designing strategic health financing policies in India. The pandemic provides the window of opportunity to reflect on our health financing objectives to strengthen the health system resilience and...
NEWS | 02 Jun 2021
Covid-related insurance claims could hit 3bn baht as cases continue to rise
Thailand
Thai General Insurance Association (TGIA) said that the total amount of Covid-19 insurance premiums received as of May 15 stood at 3.5 billion baht from 9 million policies. This could lead total claims from Covid-19 insurance to soar to 3 billion baht this year...
NEWS | 01 Jun 2021
Indonesia’s COVID-19 vaccine drive gets a shot in the arm with private sector plan
Indonesia
Private sector companies in Indonesia began inoculating employees against COVID-19 with a paid-for vaccine plan aimed at boosting productivity and accelerating the government’s free, nationwide vaccination drive. Registered private companies are allowed to...
NEWS | 01 Jun 2021
Bangladesh Prime Minister assures adequate supply of Covid 19 vaccines irrespective of procurement costs
Bangladesh
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has assured that her government will procure COVID-19 vaccines at any cost, and has also allocated financial help for marginalized families. An amount of over 1,500 crore Bangladeshi Takas has been allocated to ease the sufferings of...
NEWS | 31 May 2021
Bangladeshis’ woes deepen amid COVID 19 and lack of health coverage
Bangladesh
Despite having one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, Bangladesh is lagging far behind in providing standard health care services to its over 166 million people, which is deepening their woes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Their budget for the health sector is...
NEWS | 30 May 2021
Public and private sectors collective response to combat COVID-19 in Malaysia
Malaysia
The resurgence of COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the public healthcare system and overloaded the healthcare resources. Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia has adopted an Emergency Ordinance (EO) to instruct private hospitals to receive both COVID-19 and...
NEWS | 30 May 2021
No hospital charges for COVID-19 patients
Thailand
National Health Security Office (NHSO) urges hospital operators not to charge COVID-19 patients for any health services. Thai government will reimburse the hospitals for any expense incurred. Both public and private hospital operators can process the claims with...
DOCUMENT | 28 May 2021
Purchasing reforms and tracking health resources, Kenya (December 2019)
Kenya
As low- and middle-income countries undertake health financing reforms to achieve universal health coverage, there is renewed interest in making allocation of pooled funds to health-care providers more strategic. To make purchasing more strategic, countries are...