Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 17 Feb 2010

No. S 89

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medishield Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

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) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 17th February 2010.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 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 definition of “lifetime claim limit”, the following definition:

“ “living donor organ transplant” has the same meaning as in the Human Organ Transplant Act (Cap. 131A);”;

(b)

by deleting the definition of “organ procurement costs” and substituting the following definition:

“ “organ transplantation costs” means —

(a)

any costs arising in relation or incidental to the removal of any organ from a non-living organ donor for organ transplant and includes the costs of —

(i)	the donor’s extended stay, before his death, in a hospital as necessitated by the donation of his organ;
(ii)	any surgical operation to remove the organ from the donor’s body;
(iii)	any pre-harvesting laboratory test and investigation;
(iv)	any counselling provided to the donor’s family in connection with the donation of his organ;
(v)	the storage and transport of the organ; and
(vi)	such other procedure as may be approved by the Minister for Health; or

(b)

any costs so far as are reasonably or directly attributable to the removal of any specified organ from a living organ donor for organ transplant and includes the costs of —

(i)	the donor’s stay in a hospital as necessitated by the donation of his specified organ until he is discharged;
(ii)	any surgical operation to remove the specified organ from the donor’s body;
(iii)	the storage and transport of the specified organ; and
(iv)	such other procedure as may be approved by the Minister for Health,

but does not include —

(A)	any costs arising in relation or incidental to complications suffered by the donor due to the donation of his specified organ after his discharge from the hospital under sub-paragraph (i);
(B)	any pre-harvesting laboratory test and investigation; and
(C)	any counselling provided to the donor’s family in connection with the donation of his specified organ;”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Scheme”, the following definition:

“ “specified organ” has the same meaning as in the Human Organ Transplant Act (Cap. 131A);”.

Amendment of regulation 10

3. Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (13) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(13) Subject to the claim limits provided in paragraphs (1), (2), (5) and (9), where an insured person —

(a)	is admitted to an approved hospital as an in-patient for any medical treatment; or
(b)	receives any day surgical treatment in the approved hospital,

on or after —

(i)	1st October 2007 in connection with an organ transplant other than a living donor organ transplant; or
(ii)	17th February 2010 in connection with a living donor organ transplant,

he shall be entitled to claim from the Board, as part of the charges incurred for such treatment, the amount of any organ transplantation costs that he has incurred in connection with the organ transplant.

(13A) For the purposes of paragraph (13), where the organ transplantation costs are incurred in connection with a living donor organ transplant of which the insured person is the recipient of the specified organ, the assured amount for any item of medical treatment shall, notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, apply separately in relation to —

(a)	that medical treatment as received by the insured person; and
(b)	that medical treatment as received by the living organ donor.”.

Amendment of regulation 20

4. Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the charges incurred in respect of any medical treatment in an approved hospital received by an insured person who —

(a)	is admitted to the approved hospital as an in-patient; or
(b)	receives any day surgical treatment in the approved hospital,

on or after —

(i)	1st October 2007 in connection with an organ transplant other than a living donor organ transplant; or
(ii)	17th February 2010 in connection with a living donor organ transplant,

shall include the amount of any organ transplantation costs that the insured person has incurred in connection with the organ transplant.”.

[G. N. Nos. S 447/2008; S 691/2008]

Made this 11th day of February 2010.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10.1/82 V14; AG/LLRD/SL/36/2010/2 Vol. 1]

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

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