MEDIAN PAYMENTS TO CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME VISITS AT POLYCLINICS AND CHAS GP CLINICS FROM 2021 TO 2025

NOTICE PAPER NO. 30

NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON OR AFTER 25 SEPTEMBER 2025

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Mr David Hoe

MP for Jurong East-Bukit Batok GRC

Question No. 123

To ask the Minister for Health for each of the past five years, what are the median out-of-pocket payments per visit to (i) polyclinics and (ii) CHAS GP clinics for the top ten chronic conditions listed under the Chronic Disease Management Programme, disaggregated by (i) CHAS tier (ii) housing type and (ii) income quintiles, respectively.

Answer

We do not have all the data requested by the Member. Tables 1 and 2 provide the breakdown of the median post-subsidy amount for the ten most common chronic conditions under the Chronic Disease Management Programme (CDMP), from 2019 to 2023.

^{[1] The ten conditions at CHAS GPs are Hypertension, Lipid Disorder, Asthma, Osteoarthritis, Diabetes, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Anxiety, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Ischaemic Heart Disease, and Major Depression.}

^{[2] The ten conditions at polyclinics are the same as CHAS clinics, except for Chronic Kidney Disease instead of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.}