Singapore legislation
Regulation 21E
of Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations 2001
Regulation 21E
Additional withdrawal for payment of outpatient contribution under MediShield Life Scheme
Subregulation 1
Paragraph (2) applies where —
a member or a member’s dependant receives any Ninth Schedule treatment on or after 1 June 2026 as an out-patient; and
the person who receives any Ninth Schedule treatment is an insured person under the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015 and an outpatient contribution applies in respect of that medical treatment.
Subregulation 2
Subject to paragraph (3), the member may withdraw moneys from the member’s medisave account for payment of the medical treatment received by the insured person to which the outpatient contribution mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) applies.
Subregulation 3
The total amount that may be withdrawn by a member under paragraph (2) in respect of medical treatment received by an insured person in each insurance period of the insured person’s insurance cover under the MediShield Life Scheme must not exceed the lowest of the following amounts:
$500;
the outpatient contribution applicable in respect of the medical treatment received by that insured person;
the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account.
Subregulation 4
To avoid doubt, the amount that may be withdrawn under paragraph (2) is in addition to the amount that may be withdrawn in accordance with the withdrawal limits specified in regulations 9B, 13 (read with the First or Third Schedule as applicable), 13C, 13D, 13E and 19 (as the case may be) for the relevant Ninth Schedule treatment.
Subregulation 5
In this regulation —
Definition
“insurance period” has the meaning given by regulation 7(1) of the MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015 (G.N. No. S 622/2015);
Definition
“insured person” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015;
Definition
“outpatient contribution”, in respect of medical treatment received by an insured person, means so much of the amount specified in Part 5 of the Seventh Schedule to the MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015 as is applicable in respect of that medical treatment;
Definition
“MediShield Life Scheme” means the MediShield Life Scheme mentioned in section 3 of the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015.