NHSO lowers Covid treatment subsidies

The National Health Security Office (NHSO) has announced the newly lowered rates of reimbursement it is offering healthcare facilities which treat patients infected with Covid-19, adding it plans to provide the public with more free antigen test kits in the future.

The new rates were approved by the NHSO’s board on Feb 7 and will apply to five areas of healthcare as well as related services, Jadej Thammatacharee, the office’s secretary-general, said yesterday.

The first relates to the cost of providing care to patients with mild or no symptoms either at home or in their community. The NHSO will pay a single rate of 12,000 baht per person for care, including three meals a day, for cases that last seven days or longer, he said.

For shorter time frames, the rate is capped at 8,000 baht, he noted.

The second pertains to lab-based testing services. The NHSO will pay…