SINGAPORE — For the first time, patients can now check the recommended private hospital fees for 29 common surgical procedures and medical conditions such as cataract surgery and asthma, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (June 14).
The ministry has also greatly expanded an existing list of recommended fees for surgeons and anaesthetists to cover many of the procedures that can be claimed under MediSave and MediShield Life .
In a media release on Wednesday, MOH said that while the recommended fees are not mandatory, the system had helped to"moderate" fee increases since it was introduced in 2018 and expanded in 2020.MOH said it has updated the surgeon, anaesthetist and doctors’ inpatient attendance benchmark fees that were introduced in 2018 and 2020.
For example, most who needed simple foot fracture surgery in 2017 incurred surgical fees of between S$4,280 and S$6,420, but the committee evaluated that reasonable rates should have been between S$4,000 and S$5,350. In its media release on Wednesday, MOH said that close to 90 per cent of doctors have been charging within the recommended surgeon fee benchmarks.
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