Click to set custom HTML 在公立醫院及診所收費架構重整後,醫院管理局(下稱「醫管局」)會貫徹政府的基本理念,即是不會有市民因經濟原因而得不到適當的醫療照顧。因此,領取綜合社會保障援助(下稱「綜援」)的病人,只要出示特別向綜援受助人發出的有效醫療費用豁免證明書,可以繼續獲豁免公營醫療服務的收費。此外,為保障沒有領取綜援的三類人士:低收入人士、長期病患者及貧困年長病人,政府已經制訂措施加強現行的醫療費用減免機制,以免他們承受沉重的經濟負擔。 在加強現行的減免機制時,政府是基於以下的原則:(1) 公帑應集中資助弱勢社群,以及那些對病人構成沉重經濟負擔的服務;(2) 在評定病人是否符合資格獲減免公共醫療費用時,設定一套客觀而具透明度的準則;同時須考慮經濟和非經濟的因素;(3) 經加強後的機制應利便市民使用,而同時維持所需的行政和營運費用在現時的低水平。 非綜援受助人如因經濟困難未能負擔醫療服務收費,可向各公立醫院和診所的醫務社會服務部、社會福利署綜合家庭服務中心或保護家庭及兒童服務課申請減免繳費。醫務社會工作者(下稱「醫務社工」及社會福利署綜合家庭服務中心或保護家庭及兒童服務課社工(下稱「社署家庭服務社工」)會處理有關申請,並會以家庭為基礎作出資格評估,考慮因素包括申請人患病所引致的經濟、社會和醫療情況。 詳見 : 公立醫院及診所費用減免機制 (連結) It has always been the Government's fundamental philosophy that no one will be denied adequate medical care due to lack of means. To ensure that this principle will be upheld after the fee revamp, recipients of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) will continue to be waived from payment of their public health care expenses. To assist the three vulnerable groups in the community, i.e., the low income group, chronically ill patients and elderly patients who have little income or assets, but who are not CSSA recipients, the existing medical fee waiver mechanism has been enhanced to provide effective protection from undue financial burden to them.
The following guiding principles have been taken into account to enhance the waiver mechanism: (1) Public funds should be channeled to the vulnerable groups and to services which carry major financial risks to patients; (2) There should be a set of objective and transparent criteria to assess a patient's eligibility for exemption from payment of public medical fees. As at present, both financial and non-financial factors should be considered; and (3) The enhanced mechanism should facilitate accessibility to services, while maintaining the low administrative and operating cost of the existing mechanism. Non-CSSA recipients who could not afford medical expense at the public sector can apply for a medical fee waiver at the Medical Social Services Units of public hospitals and clinics or the Integrated Family Services Centres & the Family and Child Protective Services Units of the Social Welfare Department (IFSCs/ FCPSUs of SWD). The Medical Social Workers (MSWs) or Social Workers (SWs) of IFSCs/ FCPSUs of SWD would assess the application with due consideration given to the financial, social and medical condition of the applicants on a household basis. Detail : Waiving Mechanism of Public Hospitals (link)
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