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Table 4 User fees for surgical and non-surgical inpatient cases and their impact on users having to pay for the hospital service OOP

From: Determining the impacts of hospital cost-sharing on the uninsured near-poor households in Vietnam

Hospital service and level

UF per day (US$)

Average LOS (days)

UF for whole treatment episode (US$)

UF/annual income of near-poor household (%)

UF/average income per household in 2008 (%)

Surgical inpatient treatment case

     

Province

41.7

6.6

275.2

17.2

4.5

Central

102.5

8.7

891.7

55.8

15.1

Non-surgical inpatient treatment case

     

Province

11.3

7.5

84.2

5.2

1.4

Central

27.7

10.4

288.1

18.1

4.8