Regulations Governing the Subsidization of Medical Expenses and the National Health Insurance Premiums for Disaster Victims in Disaster Affected Areas Article 5

When the Executive Yuan has not yet announced the range of disaster affected areas, and there are a large number of disaster-affected patients requiring treatment, the Insurer may take the severe circumstances facing Medical Institutions in admitting disaster-affected patients at different locations into consideration to study and determine the range of disaster-affected areas having a large number of patients. The Insurer shall submit such determination to the Ministry of Health and Welfare for approval of the designation of large-scale disaster-affected patient areas after consulting with the central regulating authorities for disaster prevention and protection and other relevant competent authorities and then publicly announce such designation.The two preceding articles shall apply mutatis mutandis to the subsidization of expenses of disaster victims in a large-scale disaster-affected patient area prescribed in the preceding paragraph. This applies to costs incurred from the day a disaster strikes until the Executive Yuan officially announces the scope of the disaster affected areas, which include medical expenses resulting from the disaster as well as general food expenses during hospitalization that are not covered by the Insurance.For those disaster victims who meet the criteria set forth in the preceding paragraph, have already been hospitalized for treatment, reside in a disaster-affected area not included in the range of disaster affected areas announced by the Executive Yuan, and have not been discharged from the hospital at the time the Executive Yuan made the aforesaid announcement, the subsidization for their hospitalization expenses shall be calculated up to the day they are discharged from hospital.After the Ministry of Health and Welfare approves the designation of the range of areas referred to in Paragraph 1, the Insurer may, when necessary, inform Medical Institutions in advance of such designation.