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Aligning Incentives, Not Assigning Blame: A Path Forward For Malaysia’s Health Assurance Industry — Dr Raymond Choy
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (407+ words) I read with keen interest the recent CodeBlue article "Bleak Future For Malaysia's Health Assurance Industry, written by Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan. The concerns raised are valid and timely. Malaysia's health assurance ecosystem is undoubtedly under pressure, but the root…...
Insurance ‘Quotas’ Prioritising Outpatient Over Inpatient Care May Hurt Patients — Kok Mun Sum
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (767+ words) Insurers" directives to raise the quota of outpatients over inpatients for certain illnesses, including dengue, may subtly undermine medical judgement. Dengue can worsen rapidly. When insurers apply pressure to reduce admissions, the safety margin narrows. The recent Free Malaysia Today…...
‘I Didn’t Expect To Fight Both Cancer And My Insurer’ - CodeBlue
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1706+ words) As Ramu battles stage 4 tongue cancer, his health insurance claims are frozen behind an old hypertension episode, requests for nine years" worth of medical records, and months of "investigation. Ramu has spent some RM69,000, despite RM1.5mil annual cover. KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 " Ramu…...
MOF And MOH Establish Joint Ministerial Committee On Private Health Care Costs
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (344+ words) MOF and MOH have set up a Joint Ministerial Committee on Private Healthcare Costs (JMCPHC) to monitor the implementation of Bank Negara's Reset framework to manage medical inflation, particularly the development of a base MHIT product and DRG payments. KUALA…...