PUBLISHED : 16 Dec 2024 at 04: 54
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Maj Gen Dr Riengthong Nanna
Mongkutwattana Hospital has stopped treating outpatient referrals under the universal coverage healthcare card, or gold card scheme, to help contain financial losses.
Maj Gen Dr Riengthong Nanna, the hospital’s director and owner, said the hospital stopped receiving gold card outpatients from last Friday. The cards are issued under the scheme run by the National Health Security Office (NHSO).
The NHSO, he said, had not kept its promise to pay outstanding debt incurred in referred outpatient cases since March. The accumulated cost is 44 million baht. “If Mongkutwattana Hospital continues to provide services to the referred outpatients, we will not be able to survive,” he said, adding t
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