Good
news, all insured persons must know. You
can change your 'artificial
eye'
to an individual today.
Check the conditions and methods for
receiving the
service
Service
recipients must be those who have lost
their eyes as follows:
*
Patients with congenital atrophy of the
eye
* Patients with atrophy after an
eyeball burst
* Patients after
eyeball removal surgery
The Social
Security Office will take care of the
following medical expenses:
-
Pre-operative assessment fee for
inserting an individual artificial eye,
including examination fee, artificial
eye test fee, vision level measurement
fee, eye examination machine fee, and
artificial tears fee at the actual rate
not exceeding 500 baht/time
-
Artificial eye printing fee at the
actual rate not exceeding 500 baht
-
Service fee on the day of receiving the
artificial eye at the actual rate not
exceeding 600 baht
- Cost of
artificial organs or medical treatment
equipment Pay at the rate specified in
the list and the rate of prosthetic
organs or medical treatment
equipment.
1. Customized eye
prosthesis
Pay at the rate of 5,000
baht per side. It is a prosthetic eye
cover.
- Synthetic sheet colored to
imitate the
cornea/iris/conjunctiva.
- The main
material is Polyethylene, newly made for
each individual to fit the eye socket of
each patient.
- Used in patients who
do not have eyes or have atrophied eyes
with eye socket problems that support
the prosthetic eye.
- Used to expand
the size of the eye socket and eye
socket. In patients with shallow
slit-lamp
Note: Can be changed every
2 years when the size/shape of the eye
socket changes.
2. Clear prosthetic
eye (Customized conformer)
Payment
rate of 1,500 baht per side, it is a
prosthetic eye covering.
- Clear
synthetic sheet
- Main material is
Polyethylene, available in various sizes
from small to large.
- Used to
maintain the eye socket in patients with
no eyeball or atrophied eyes while
waiting for a prosthetic eye (Eye
prosthesis)
- Used to expand the area
of the eye socket in patients with
shallow slit-lamp problems that take
less than 6 months to expand.
Note:
Clear prosthetic eye is made to fit each
patient's eye socket to determine
whether or not it needs to be expanded.
Some patients may not need to expand or
some patients may need to expand the eye
socket about 3 times.
The
hospitals participating in the project
are as follows:
Metta Pracharak
Hospital, Wat Rai Khing
Siriraj
Hospital
Chulalongkorn
Hospital
Ramathibodi
Hospital
Phramongkutklao
Hospital
Thammasat University
Hospital
Songklanagarind
Hospital
Faculty of Dentistry,
Mahidol University
Faculty of
Dentistry Chiang Mai
University
Easy steps to receive
services, just use your ID card, you can
use your rights at participating
hospitals or hospitals according to your
rights.
For more information
about social security, visit
www.sso.go.th or call the hotline 1506,
which is available 24 hours a day, every
day.