Medical treatment provided to person other than dependant
24.—(1)  The Minister for Health may, in his discretion and subject to such terms and conditions as he may impose, authorise a member to withdraw the whole or part of the amount standing to his credit in his medisave account for the payment of charges incurred in respect of —
(a)any medical treatment (other than renal dialysis treatment or any approved vaccination) provided by an approved medical practitioner in a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital, or in a ward of an approved community hospital, an approved convalescent hospital, an approved in-patient hospice or an approved IPC provider which is equivalent to a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital and in respect of which the Government makes an annual grant in aid of recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred in operating or maintaining the ward;
(b)any day surgical treatment at subsidised rates provided by an approved medical practitioner in an approved day surgery centre;
(c)any approved rehabilitation treatment in any approved day rehabilitation centre;
(d)any radiosurgery treatment at subsidised rates at an approved medical institution;
(e)any First Schedule treatment or Third Schedule treatment provided on an out-patient basis at subsidised rates;
(f)any approved chronic illness treatment provided on an out-patient basis by an approved medical practitioner at an approved CIT medical institution or by way of approved remote consultation;
(g)any renal dialysis treatment received on or after 1 January 2009 as an in-patient at an approved centre or approved hospital or as an out-patient at approved renal dialysis premises;
[S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]
(h)any approved vaccination (other than against Hepatitis B) provided on an out-patient basis by an approved medical practitioner in an approved clinic, approved community hospital or approved CIT medical institution;
(ha)any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) provided in an approved day hospice;
(i)any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) provided by an approved home palliative care provider;
(j)any approved screening provided on an out-patient basis in an approved clinic, approved hospital or approved screening centre;
[S 3/2022 wef 03/01/2022]
(k)any out‑patient scan under regulation 13A; or
(l)any approved out-patient parenteral nutrition mentioned in regulation 9B(1),
to a person other than a member’s dependant as if the person were the member’s dependant.
(1A)  Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Minister for Health may, upon a request by a member in any particular case, approve the withdrawal by the member of the whole or part of the amount standing to his credit in his medisave account for the payment of charges incurred in respect of any of the following treatments received on or after 1st May 2008 by a person other than the member’s dependant as if that person were the member’s dependant, subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose:
(a)any medical treatment specified in paragraph (1)(a) in a ward of an approved hospital, approved community hospital, approved convalescent hospital, approved in-patient hospice or approved IPC provider, as the case may be, other than a ward of the type mentioned in that paragraph; or
(b)any treatment specified in paragraph (1)(b), (d) or (e) at non-subsidised rates.
(2)  Where the Minister authorises a withdrawal under paragraph (1) or approves a withdrawal under paragraph (1A), the person referred to in the relevant paragraph shall for the purposes of this Part be deemed to be the dependant of such member.
[S 855/2020 wef 01/10/2020]
(3)  In paragraph (1)(e), “First Schedule treatment” means any of the following medical treatments:
(a)radiotherapy treatment from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(b)treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(c)blood transfusions and desferrioxamine for the medical treatment of thalassaemia from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(d)intravenous antibiotic infusion from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital as designated by the Minister for Health;
(e)rental of devices for long term oxygen therapy and infant continuous positive airway pressure therapy from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(f)immunosuppressants for organ transplant from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital.
(4)  [Deleted by S 157/2021 wef 15/03/2021]