Medical treatment charge for psychiatric patients up 10 percent

The medical treatment charge for psychiatric patients has increased from this January by 10 percent after a three-year freeze since November 1999, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said.

According to the ministry, this adjustment of such medical treatment charge - inpatients (up 10.04 percent) and outpatients (up 10.6 percent) - had been under review from the Central Reimbursement Deliberat...