Lee Ki-il, the first supervisor of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, holds a regular briefing on the response to COVID-19 on the 11th. [사진=연합뉴스]
The government apologized for the recent changes to the guidelines regarding telephone consultations for at-home caregivers for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) several times, and reiterated that consultations can be received free of charge even more than twice a day.
At a regular briefing on the 11th, First Supervisor Lee Ki-il of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters said, “We are very sorry for the confusion before the introduction of the new home treatment system. We will make sure that this does not happen in the future.” You can get a medical examination,” he reconfirmed.
The previous day, the government announced that if a home therapist receives medical treatment over the phone twice or more on the same day, the out-of-pocket amount will be incurred. However, it soon changed the explanation that no additional examination fee would be incurred even for more than two treatments.
The controller said, “If you receive phone consultations and prescriptions for corona disease at the same medical institution, the medical institution can claim the (diagnosis fee) once a day, and there is no co-payment for the patient. is impossible, but there is no additional cost burden to the patient.”
“However, just because you can see more than twice a day doesn’t mean you can receive treatment indefinitely,” he said. “He said.
As an exception, the government said that children under the age of 11 can claim up to twice a day, considering that monitoring more than twice a day may be required.
According to the main script, as of 6 p.m. the previous day, there are a total of 3,925 medical institutions that can provide counseling and prescription for COVID-19 by phone, including a respiratory clinic. The list can be found on the website of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
In addition, from the previous day, 208 home treatment medical consultation centers that provide 24-hour medical consultation started operating.
The controller urged the local government to use the home treatment administrative information center for administrative inquiries, such as lifting the quarantine period or delivering kits, so that the home treatment medical consultation center can focus on medical consultation.
The government announced that it is adjusting the standard for living support expenses according to the classification of home treatment.
The controller said, “Since the day before, the ‘intensive management group’ and the ‘general management group’ were classified among the at-home treatment groups. answered.
As of the previous day, the first day of home treatment system conversion, the number of new home treatment patients was 42,776, of which 8156 (19%) were in the intensive care group.
- reporter information
- Jeon Jeon-wook
- sotong@ajunews.com
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