Open Access<p>The Effects of the Health Insurance Card Scheme on Out-of-Pocket Expenditure Among Migrants in Ranong Province, Thailand</p>
Author(s) -
Rapeepong Suphanchaimat,
Watinee Kunpeuk,
Mathudara Phaiyarom,
Sirinard Nipaporn
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s219571
Subject(s) - christian ministry , descriptive statistics , payment , health care , health insurance , business , medicine , environmental health , family medicine , finance , economic growth , statistics , political science , economics , mathematics , law
Although Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage since 2002, there remained gaps in the insurance coverage as undocumented migrants were ineligible to be enrolled in the national public insurance. In 2004 the Thai Ministry of Public Health implemented the Health Insurance Card Scheme (HICS) to cover undocumented migrants. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the HICS on out-of-pocket payments (OOP) made by migrant patients at point of care.