Renal dialysis treatment
19.—(1)  Notwithstanding regulation 3, no withdrawal shall be made from a member’s medisave account for the payment of charges incurred for any renal dialysis treatment received on or after 1st December 2004 by any of the following dependants of the member as an out-patient, except with the approval of the Minister charged with the responsibility for health or any person designated by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health:
(a)a parent;
(b)a grandparent who is a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore;
(ba)a sibling who is a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore;
(c)the spouse; or
(d)a child above the age of 21 years.
[S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]
(2)  Despite anything in this Part but subject to paragraph (1) and regulations 4(4) and (6), 21C, 21D and 24, where a member or his dependant has received renal dialysis treatment as an out-patient on or after 15 March 2021 at approved renal dialysis premises, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member from the member’s medisave account for the payment of approved costs for that treatment must not exceed —
(a)the sum of $450 per month per patient;
(b)the total expenditure incurred on approved costs; or
(c)the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account,
whichever is the lowest.
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(2A)  Despite anything in this Part but subject to paragraph (4) and regulation 4(4) and (6), where a member or the member’s dependant has received renal dialysis treatment as an in-patient in an approved centre or approved hospital, the member may withdraw the amounts permitted to be withdrawn under regulation 5 for the renal dialysis treatment.
[S 855/2020 wef 01/10/2020]
[S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]
(3)  Where any dependant of a member referred to in paragraph (1) has received renal dialysis treatment as an out-patient at approved renal dialysis premises on or after 1st December 2004, the withdrawal from the member’s medisave account shall, in addition, be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister charged with the responsibility for health may impose.
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(4)  Despite paragraph (2A), no amount may be withdrawn under regulation 5 for the payment of charges incurred for any renal dialysis treatment received by a member or the member’s dependant as an in-patient for any of the following:
(a)the purchase of an ultra-violet machine for sterilization;
(b)the purchase of a dialysis machine.
[S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]
(5)  In this regulation, “approved costs”, in relation to renal dialysis treatment received at approved renal dialysis premises, means the costs approved by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health for the type of renal dialysis treatment received at such approved renal dialysis premises but excludes the following:
(a)any consultation fee incurred by the member or the member’s dependant;
(b)the purchase of an ultra-violet machine for sterilization;
(c)the purchase of a dialysis machine.
[S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]