What Services Are Included in Comprehensive Health Insurance: Minister Presents

The Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia, Arsen Torosyan, wrote on his Facebook page: "In the comprehensive health insurance system that we propose, there will be a package of basic services, which I present below for children under 18 years of age (the package for adults will be presented in a separate post)."

1. Outpatient medical assistance and service, including:

• Consultation with a local doctor, and if necessary, consultations with specialists upon referral and referral for laboratory and instrumental diagnostic examinations based on medical indications, including special and hard-to-reach laboratory-instrumental diagnostic studies,
• Specialized consultations during pregnancy monitoring and mandatory laboratory-instrumental diagnostic examinations,
• Emergency medical assistance services, including air ambulance,
• Dental medical assistance,
• Care services for children with mental and physical issues,
• Provision of medications listed in the basic medicines list and prescribed by the local doctor in case of diseases.

2. State care health services, including:

• Immunization,
• Preventive medical assistance, mandatory medical examinations, and laboratory-instrumental diagnostic examinations,
• Medical assistance services for intestinal and other infectious diseases,
• Medical assistance services for tuberculosis,
• Medical assistance services for HIV/AIDS,
• Medical assistance services for mental and addiction-related illnesses,
• Hemodialysis services.

3. Hospital care and service, including:

• Reanimation and intensive therapy services for newborns,
• Reanimation and emergency medical assistance services in case of chronic disease exacerbations,
• Treatment of cardiovascular diseases, including cardiac surgery, arrhythmology, endovascular surgery,
• Surgical interventions and radiation therapy services for malignant neoplasms, as well as chemotherapy medical assistance,
• Obstetrics and neonatal care services,
• Pediatric and neonatal surgeries, general, vascular, maxillofacial, endocrine, thoracic, ophthalmological, orthopedic and traumatological, neurosurgical, microsurgical, gynecological, ear, nose, and throat, urological, and proctological surgeries.