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Dental public coverage: Taiwan, 2024
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Taiwan: NHI (single-payer, universal) covers dentistry as a listed service: extraction, operative dentistry, scaling, root canal and periodontal treatment, delivered through a dental outpatient global budget (paid since 1998 phase-in, universal from 2002). Patient pays a flat NT$50 copayment per dental visit at any level of institution, with no referral rule and no drug copayment for dental visits. Cosmetic and non-therapeutic items (including dentures per the NHI Act exclusion list) are outside NHI; no NHI coverage of implants or clear aligners was found in the sources read. in 2024, according to NHIA NHI Annual Report 2023-2024. Basis: other.
Comparability A Confidence high
Cite this
National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), MOHW, Taiwan. (2026). Dental public coverage: Taiwan, as of 2024-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dental-public-coverage/2024/
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Record
- Value
- NHI (single-payer, universal) covers dentistry as a listed service: extraction, operative dentistry, scaling, root canal and periodontal treatment, delivered through a dental outpatient global budget (paid since 1998 phase-in, universal from 2002). Patient pays a flat NT$50 copayment per dental visit at any level of institution, with no referral rule and no drug copayment for dental visits. Cosmetic and non-therapeutic items (including dentures per the NHI Act exclusion list) are outside NHI; no NHI coverage of implants or clear aligners was found in the sources read.
- Unit
- text
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- other
- Scope
- other
- Comparability
- Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
However, dental care and traditional Chinese medicine incur a fixed NT$50 copayment regardless of the level of care. Currently NHI offers the following healthcare services: outpatient care, hospitalization, traditional Chinese medicine, dentistry, childbirth, rehabilitation, home care, and chronic psychiatric rehabilitation.
Locator: AR 2023-2024, p.33 Table 3-2 and text (bilingual); p.37 Global Budget Payment System
Local definition
What NHI pays for in dental care and patient copayment
Source
National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), MOHW, Taiwan: NHI Annual Report 2023-2024 (全民健康保險年報). Registry entry: nhia-tw-annual-report-2023-2024.
Notes
Composed from NHIA Annual Report 2023-2024 (copayment, services list, global budget) plus the 2020-21 Handbook record (tw.dental_public_coverage.2020) for exclusions. The statement about implants/aligners is absence of evidence in fetched documents; the NHI fee schedule chapter 3 (dental treatment) was skimmed and had no implant or orthodontic items but was not read in full. The 2024 dental outpatient budget is NT$52.037 billion (MOHW press).
Metric definition
What public (social or national) health insurance pays for in dental care; short text, original scope noted All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | NHI (single-payer, universal) covers dentistry as a listed service: extraction, operative dentistry, scaling, root canal and periodontal treatment, delivered through a dental outpatient global budget (paid since 1998 phase-in, universal from 2002). Patient pays a flat NT$50 copayment per dental visit at any level of institution, with no referral rule and no drug copayment for dental visits. Cosmetic and non-therapeutic items (including dentures per the NHI Act exclusion list) are outside NHI; no NHI coverage of implants or clear aligners was found in the sources read. | other | Comparability A | NHI Annual Report 2023-2024 (全民健康保險年報) | ||
| 2020 | NHI covers dental care with a cap on repeat services (tooth extraction, operative dentistry and therapeutic scaling each limited to 6 times per 30 days; root canal 60 days per course). Items outside NHI include dentures, artificial eyes, glasses, hearing aids and other equipment not required to actually treat the patient. Low and middle-low income seniors (65+; indigenous 55+) can get a local-government denture subsidy of NT$15,000-40,000 under a separate MOHW programme (not NHI). | other | Comparability A | Handbook of Taiwan's National Health Insurance 2020-2021 |
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