Brazil
BR
Healthcare System
Universal public system (SUS) guaranteeing healthcare to all citizens, plus a large private sector serving approximately 25% of the population through ANS-regulated health plans.
- System Type
- Mixed public/private
- Regulatory Body
- ANVISA (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária) — drug regulation, registration, and pharmacovigilance
- Data Protection
- LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais — Lei 13.709/2018), Brazil's GDPR-equivalent; patient health data as sensitive data
- Currency
- BRL (Real)
- Emergency Number
- 192 (SAMU — Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência); 193 (Bombeiros); 190 (Polícia)
- Languages
- pt
Coding Systems
diagnosis
CID-10 (Portuguese ICD-10)
Classificação Internacional de Doenças, 10ª revisão — Portuguese translation of WHO ICD-10, adopted by DATASUS and used universally in Brazil
dental
FDI (ISO 3950)
Federation Dentaire Internationale two-digit notation — standard in Brazil; Brasil Sorridente and CFO use FDI exclusively
procedures
TUSS (Terminologia Unificada da Saúde Suplementar)
Unified procedure terminology for private health plans, regulated by ANS. Required by RN 346/2014 for all ANS-regulated plans.
procedures Public
SIGTAP/SIA-SUS
SUS procedure and billing codes; SIGTAP (Sistema de Gerenciamento da Tabela de Procedimentos, Medicamentos e OPM do SUS)
drugs
RENAME + ANVISA registry
RENAME (Relação Nacional de Medicamentos Essenciais) for essential medicines; ANVISA Registro for all approved drugs
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