Thailand
TH
Healthcare System
Universal healthcare since 2002. Three main schemes based on employment. World-leading medical tourism destination (~2.5M international patients/year).
- System Type
- Universal coverage with three schemes
- Regulatory Body
- Thai FDA (Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Public Health)
- Data Protection
- PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act, 2019, effective 2022)
- Currency
- THB
- Emergency Number
- 1669
- Languages
- th, en
Coding Systems
diagnosis
ICD-10-TM
ICD-10 Thai Modification. Based on WHO ICD-10 with Thai-specific extensions.
dental
FDI (ISO 3950)
Federation Dentaire Internationale two-digit notation
procedures
ICD-9-CM-TM / ICD-10-TM procedures
Thai modifications of procedure classifications
dental Procedures
Thai dental procedure codes
National dental procedure coding aligned with ICD-10-TM
drugs
NLEM
National List of Essential Medicines (Thai FDA)
Translation Corridors
TH→US (Thai-Americans, US retirement/insurance) TH→JP (Japanese retirees in Thailand) TH→DE (Thai spouses of German nationals) TH→AU (Thai students/workers in Australia) Foreign medical tourism TO Thailand: US, Japan, UK, Middle East patients seeking Thai treatment records for home-country insurers
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