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Inpatient Means Testing for Drugs
17 November 2008
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17 Nov 2008
Question No: 835
Question
Name of the Person: Baey Yam Keng
To ask the Minister for Health whether the graduated subsidy levels under the means testing framework apply to the cost of medicine and how does the differential pricing of standard and non-standard drugs work under the framework
Reply
Reply From MOH
From next year, all subsidized healthcare services used by Class B2 and C patients during their hospital stay will have the bills adjusted by the appropriate subsidy levels. This would include standard drugs.
Non-standard drugs will continue to be charged at cost to patients, as is the practice today.