Parliamentary QA
Costs of counselling at public hospitals for couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment
1 March 2024
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NOTICE PAPER NO. 2615
NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER
FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 1 MARCH 2024
Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang
MP for Nee Soon GRC
Question No. 5580
To ask the Minister for Health for each year in the past five years, what are the mean and median costs of counselling at public hospitals for couples undergoing assisted reproductive treatment.
Answer
1 Table 1 below shows the average charges for counselling at public Assisted Reproduction (AR) centres for couples before they undergo Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatment for the first time.
Table 1: Average charges for ART counselling at public AR centres
Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average Charges | $84.74 | $88.14 | $93.35 | $93.53 | $93.98 |