全 民 健 康 保 險 年 報
National Health Insurance In Taiwan
2013-2014
ANNUAL REPORT
Illness Name/Description
16
Myasthenia gravis
17
Congenital immunodeficiency disorders
18
Neurological, muscular, cutaneous, skeletal, cardiopulmonary, urological, or gastrointestinal complications due to spinal cord
injuries or other spinal cord diseases (where the degree of impairment is moderate or higher)
19
Occupational disease
20
Acute cerebrovascular disease (within 1month after acute attack)
21
Multiple sclerosis
22
Congenital muscular dystrophy
23
Congenital anomalies of the integument
24
Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
25
Cirrhosis of the liver, accompanied by one of the following complications:
(1)
Uncontrollable ascites
(2)
Esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding
(3)
Hepatic coma or hepatic decompensation
26
Neurological, muscular, skeletal, cardiac, or pulmonary complications in pretermchildren
27
Toxic effect of arsenic and its compounds (black foot disease)
28
Motor neuron disease (moderate impairment or above or neededmechanical ventilation)
29
Creutzfeldt-JakobDisease
30
Other rare diseases listed by theMinistry of Health andWelfare that are not included in the other 29 categories
The NHIA’s refillable prescription option was adopted to make it more convenient for patients with chronic
illnesses to get the medication they need by allowing doctors to write long-term prescriptions for them. When doctors
certify that a patient has a chronic but stable illness, as recognized by theMinistry of Health andWelfare, they canwrite
a prescription valid for three months covering 90 days of medication. The prescription must be filled in installments,
with up to one month of medicine allowed to be dispensed at a time. Those with proof that they will be traveling
abroad, returning to an outlying island, or working on a deep-sea fishing boat or ship sailing international routes for an
extended period of time, or those with a rare disease, can collect the entire prescription at once if they present a waiver.