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On 22/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 22/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 22/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 01/03/2013.
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Approved medical treatment
 
Operative date for treatment or services received
 
Maximum amount that may be withdrawn
1.
Radiotherapy treatment
 
 
 
 
(a)
External radiotherapy
 
For course of treatment beginning before 1st June 1997
 
$60 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
 
 
For course of treatment beginning on or after 1st June 1997
 
$80 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(b)
Brachy-therapy with external radiotherapy
 
For course of treatment beginning before 1st June 1997
 
$150 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
 
 
For course of treatment beginning on or after 1st June 1997
 
$300 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(c)
Brachy-therapy without external radiotherapy
 
For course of treatment beginning before 1st June 1997
 
$300 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
 
 
For course of treatment beginning on or after 1st June 1997
 
$360 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(d)
Superficial X-ray
 
With effect from 1st July 1990
 
$30 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(e)
Stereotactic radiotherapy for cancer
 
With effect from 1st November 1999
 
$2,800 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
2.
Deleted by S 523/2009, wef 01/11/2009.
3.
Treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy
 
With effect from 1st October 2002
 
$1,200 per treatment cycle of 21 days or 28 days or $300 per weekly cycle or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lowest.
4.
Anti-retroviral drugs registered in Singapore for the medical treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
 
With effect from 1st June 2001
 
$550 per month per patient or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
5.
Radiosurgery treatment:
 
 
 
 
(a)
Gamma knife treatment
 
With effect from 27th November 1995
 
The relevant sum per day for hospital charges (as defined in regulations 5(2) and 21(2)), and $7,500 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account (whichever is the lower).
(b)
Novalis shaped beam treatment
 
With effect from 1st May 2007
 
The relevant sum per day for hospital charges (as defined in regulations 5(2) and 21(2)), and $7,500 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account (whichever is the lower).
6.
Blood transfusions and desferrioxamine for the medical treatment of thalassaemia
 
With effect from 1st June 1999
 
$350 per month or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
7.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
 
With effect from 1st March 2002
 
$100 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
8.
Intravenous antibiotic infusion at approved hospitals as designated by the Minister of Health
 
With effect from 1st October 2002
 
$600 per weekly cycle subject to a maximum claim of $2,400 per year or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
9.
Rental of devices for long term oxygen therapy and infant continuous positive airway pressure therapy
 
With effect from 1st October 2002
 
$75 per month or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
10.
Immunosuppressants for organ transplant
 
With effect from 1st January 2006
 
$300 per month or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
11.
Cancer scan or diagnostic test
 
With effect from 1st April 2008
 
$600 per year per patient or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
[S 149/2008 wef 01/04/2008]