Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1999

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 09 Nov 1999

No. S 494

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medishield Scheme) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 57 of the Central Provident Fund Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st November 1999.

Amendment of regulation 10

2. Regulation 10 of the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations (Rg 20) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “any medical treatment” in the 2nd line of paragraph (2), the words “(excluding stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “gamma knife treatment” in the 3rd line of paragraph (3), the words “and stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (4), the following paragraph:

“(5) Subject to paragraph (1), where in any policy year an insured person has received in an approved hospital stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer as an in-patient, out-patient or day surgical treatment, he shall be entitled to claim from the Board in respect of such medical treatment an amount equal to 80% of the total of the claim limits for each item of such medical treatment subject to the assured amounts of such medical treatment as specified in the Third Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 15

3. Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “any medical treatment” in the 2nd and 3rd lines of paragraph (3), the words “(excluding stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “gamma knife treatment” in the 3rd line of paragraph (4), the words “and stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (5), the following pargraph:

“(6) Subject to paragraph (1), where in any policy year an insured person has received in an approved hospital stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer as an in-patient, out-patient or day surgical treatment, he shall be entitled to claim from the Board in respect of such medical treatment an amount equal to 80% of the total of the claim limits for each item of such medical treatment subject to the assured amounts of such medical treatment as specified in the Third Schedule.”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

4. The Third Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting items 7, 7A, 7B and 7C and substituting the following item:

“

Radiotherapy treatment

(a) External radiotherapy for cancer

$40 per treatment

$100 per treatment

$80 per treatment.

(b) Superficial X-ray for cancer

$40 per treatment

$100 per treatment

$80 per treatment.

$80 per treatment

$200 per treatment

$160 per treatment.

(d) Brachytherapy (without external radiotherapy) for cancer

$80 per treatment

$200 per treatment

$160 per treatment.

(e) Stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer

$1,000 per treatment for treatment courses starting on or after 1st November 1999

$2,500 per treatment for treatment courses starting on or after 1st November 1999

$2,000 per treatment for treatment courses starting on or after 1st November 1999.

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 200/98; S268/98; S 407/99]

Made this 5th day of November 1999.

TAN CHIN NAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MM S10.1/82 T1; AG/LEG/SL/36/97/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act).

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