Malaysia Hospital for SIngaporean

PATIENTS who want to use Medisave to pay for private care abroad will be able to do so at 12 hospitals and medical centres in Malaysia from next month.
The facilities, owned by two Singapore health-care groups, offer care which could cost as little as half what it does here.
Patients who opt for the Malaysian hospitals must be referred by the Singapore groups' centres first. They can use money from their Medisave accounts only for day surgery or in-hospital admissions, subject to the same withdrawal limits as in Singapore.
The move, nearly a year in the making, gives Singaporeans, permanent residents and their immediate families more choice in where to receive in-patient and day surgery treatments.
The two groups are Health Management International (HMI), whose referral centre is its clinic in Balestier, and Parkway Holdings, whose referral centre is East Shore Hospital.
The ministry felt that having local partners would give an assurance of quality and prevent abuse, such as claims for unnecessary treatments, or bogus claims. -Strait times

Singapore Healthcare

THE Government is making a further distinction in the privileges enjoyed by citizens and permanent residents, this time, in the health-care sector.
Citizens already benefit from higher subsidies than PRs. New changes will widen that gap to 20 percentage points.
It means a PR patient in a C class hospital ward will receive a subsidy of 45 per cent to 60 per cent, whereas the citizen's subsidy remains unchanged at 65 per cent to 80 per cent.
In a B2 ward, the PR patient's subsidy will be 30 per cent to 45 per cent, compared to 50 per cent to 65 per cent for citizens.
The changes will be made in two phases, in January and July next year.
Announcing this on Thursday, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan called the changes a 'meaningful refinement to the current policy' and added: 'The key point is that citizens should enjoy better subsidy than non-citizens.' - Strait Times