Out-of-pocket money in patients with difficult-to-treat diseases to be reduced from this February

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced recently revised terms for health insurance allowance under which the individual medical costs in outpatients with 62 diseases including Parkinson's disease, myocardial disease, status epilepticus, and systemic lupus erythematosus will be reduced to 20 percent from the current 30 percent from this February 1st, in addition to the 12 intractable disea...