On 19/06/2013,
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13.
—(1) Except as provided in this regulation and regulations 9A, 14, 14A and 14B, and subject to regulation 24, no withdrawal shall be permitted under these Regulations for the payment of any charges incurred in respect of any medical treatment afforded to a member or his dependant as an out-patient.
(2) Where a member or his dependant has received treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy as an out-patient from an approved medical practitioner in an approved clinic, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed such sum as is specified in the third column of the First Schedule in relation to that approved medical treatment.
[S 548/2010 wef 01/10/2010]
(3) Where a member or his dependant has received any approved medical treatment as an out-patient from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital, approved centre or approved clinic, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed such sum as is specified in the third column of the First Schedule in relation to that approved medical treatment.
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(4) No withdrawal shall be permitted under these Regulations for the payment of any charges in respect of any anti-retroviral drug or any drug for the purposes of treating opportunistic infection registered in Singapore for the medical treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), except where such treatment —
(a)
is for the member himself or his child aged 18 years or below; and
(b)
is received from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital.
(5) Where a member or his dependant has received, on or after 1st October 2002 but before 1st November 2009, any vaccination against Hepatitis B from an approved medical practitioner as an out-patient in an approved clinic or at an approved community hospital, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of the total charges in respect of the vaccination shall not exceed the withdrawal limits specified in regulation 11(1) or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(6) Where a member or his dependant has undergone any cancer scan or diagnostic test as an outpatient in an approved medical institution, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such cancer scan or diagnostic test shall not exceed such sum as is specified in the third column of The First Schedule in relation to that approved medical treatment.
[S 548/2010 wef 01/10/2010]
(7) In paragraph (6), “cancer scan or diagnostic test” means any scan or diagnostic test performed ––
(a)
for the purpose of investigating any known neoplasms in the patient; or
(b)
in relation to any medical treatment of malignant or benign neoplasms received by the patient,
and includes magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography (CT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, ultrasound imaging, x-rays, mammograms and blood tests.
(8) Notwithstanding any restrictions on the withdrawal of moneys from medisave accounts for the payment of charges incurred in respect of any treatment afforded to a member or his dependant as an out-patient prescribed in these Regulations, the Minister for Health, or such person as the Minister for Health may appoint, may, in a particular case, approve the withdrawal of the whole or part of the amount standing to the credit of the member in his medisave account for the payment of the whole or part of the charges incurred in respect of any treatment, except any treatment referred to in regulation 12 and in the Second Schedule, received on an out-patient basis at any approved medical institution by —
(a)
the member;
(b)
the member’s dependant; or
(c)
a person deemed under regulation 24(2) to be the member’s dependant.
(9) Any approval granted under paragraph (8) may be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health, or such person as he may appoint, may impose.