全民健康保險自墊醫療費用核退辦法

The Regulations for the National Health Insurance Reimbursement of the Self-advanced Medical Expenses (hereinafter referred to as “the Regulations”) are duly enacted pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 56 of the National Health Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”).

A beneficiary of the National Health Insurance (hereinafter referred to as the “Insurance”) who meets the requirement of any of the paragraphs of Article 55 of the Act may apply for the reimbursement of medical expenses according to the Regulations.

1The scope of emergent injury or illness stipulated in Subparagraphs 1 and 2 of Article 55 is as follows:

21. Acute diarrhea, vomiting, or dehydration;

32. Acute abdominal pain, chest pain, headache, back pain (lower back or pain in the lumbar and hypochondriac region), arthralgia, or toothache, which needs emergency treatment to identify the pathogenic factors;

43. Haematemesis, hemafecia, rhinorrhagia, hemoptysis, hemolysis, hematuria, colporrhagia, or acute traumatic bleeding;

54. Acute toxic reaction or acute anaphylactic reaction;

65. Paroxysmal temperature disorder;

76. Dyspnea, asthma, cyanotic lips or fingertips;

87. Unconsciousness, coma, convulsion, limb malfunction;

98. Foreign bodies left in or blocking the eye, ear, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and genitourinary tract;

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The deadline for a beneficiary to apply for the reimbursement of medical expenses is set forth in Paragraph 1 of Article 56 of the Act.

1Where a beneficiary applies for the reimbursement of medical expenses according to Article 55 of the Act, the documents required to be submitted should comply with the requirements set forth in the appendix.

2Where a beneficiary fails to submit all required documents, he or she shall provide the supplementary document(s) within two months of being notified by the Insurer. The Insurer may, if necessary, extend the deadline for submission as per the beneficiary’s application, which is limited to one time only, and the extension may not exceed two months. Where the beneficiary fails to submit the supplementary documents before the stipulated deadline, the review will be made based solely on the submitted documents.

3The Insurer may require the beneficiary to submit supporting documents other than those stipulated in the appendix in Paragraph 1 or to attend the contracted medical care institution designated by the Insurer to receive relevant tests or examinations.

1The reimbursement of medical expenses, which the Insurer approves after its review, shall be made according to the following requirements and standards:

21. The Insurer shall make reimbursement in cases that take place within the Taiwan area pursuant to the regulations governing the review, payment, benefit payment, and co-payment of the Insurance medical expenses;

32. The Insurer shall make reimbursement in cases that take place outside the Taiwan area after it reviews and approves the application according to the regulations governing the payment and benefit payment of the Insurance medical expenses. However, in the event that the amount of self-advanced Insurance medical expenses under reimbursement application exceeds the average amount that the Insurer paid to all contracted hospitals or clinics for emergency treatment per patient, outpatient visit per patient, or inpatient care per patient day of the previous quarter of the date when the applicant receives emergency treatment or outpatient care or is discharged from the hospital, any amount in excess of the abovementioned average amount will not be reimbursed.

4The Insurer shall promulgate the standards for reimbursement set forth in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph every quarter.

1In the case of reimbursement of medical expenses which are incurred outside the Taiwan area, the foreign exchange rates should be adopted in accordance with the following requirements:

21. The foreign exchange rate of the last business day of the previous month of the date of application, which is promulgated by the Central Bank of the Republic of China, shall be used for calculation;

32. In the event that the Central Bank of the Republic of China does not have information regarding the exchange rate of a foreign currency, the spot selling exchange rate promulgated by the Bank of Taiwan should be used for calculation;

43. In the event that there is no available spot selling exchange rate defined in the preceding subparagraph, the cash selling exchange rate should be used for calculation;

54. In the event that there is no available foreign exchange data defined in the preceding subparagraph, the foreign exchange rate publicized by Bloomberg and Reuters should be used for calculation.

1The Insurer shall determine whether to reimburse the medical expenses within three months from the date when it receives the application and inform the beneficiary or his or her legal agent of the result.

2The following periods may not be included in the calculation of the deadline set forth in the preceding paragraph.

31. In the event that a beneficiary provides insufficient documents and is subsequently notified by the Insurer to provide supplementary documents: the period between the date of being notified by the Insurer and the date when the required supplementary documents are submitted;

42. In the event that the Insurer needs to check the medical records kept by a contracted medical care institution due to the review of an application, the period between the date when the contracted medical care institution is notified to submit the medical records and the date when the medical records are submitted.

1The Regulations have entered into force as of January 1, 2013.

2The amended articles of the Regulations shall enter into force on the date of the promulgation, with the exception of Article 6, amended and promulgated on December 4, 2017, which shall enter into force on January 1, 2018.