The scheme is the responsibility of the Health Insurance
Group (HIG) of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH).
Hospitals are paid on a capitation basis (fixed amount of payment
per enrolled person) through the regular annual budget in
relation to the local number of registered stateless people. The
benefit package is comprehensive and similar to that of the UCS,
including outpatient services, inpatient services, health promotion
and prevention and high cost care, without copayment. The main
purchasing mechanisms are also similar to those of the UCS:
capitation for outpatients and diagnostic-related groups (DRGs)
for inpatients. However, for the UCS, additional fees have been
introduced at all care levels to incentivize providers to rapidly
scale up certain services, such as metabolic disease screening, cervical
cancer screening and cataract surgery (National Health
Security Office 2013). More details of scheme characteristics are
presented in Table 1