Singapore legislation
Schedule 1
of Healthcare Services (Outpatient Medical Service) Regulations 2023
Schedule 1
Specified services
FIRST SCHEDULERegulation 4 and Second ScheduleSpecified services
1. A specified service for an outpatient medical service is any of the following:
blood transfusion service;
collaborative prescribing service;
electrocardiography stress testing service;
endoscopy service;
liposuction;
proton beam therapy;
radiation oncology and radiation therapy.
2. In this Schedule —“electrocardiography stress testing service” means the procedure of subjecting a patient to physiological stress (for example, by requiring the patient to use a treadmill or an ergometer) for the purpose of eliciting evidence of ischemic heart disease or any arrhythmia, to assess cardiac functional status, or both;“endoscopy service” means the inspection of a body organ or tissues inside a human body by the use of an endoscope;“liposuction” means the surgical removal of localised fat deposits in a human body by aspiration in order to treat deposits of subcutaneous fat distributed in aesthetically unpleasing proportions, the injection or transfer of the removed fat into another part of the human body, or both;“proton beam therapy” means the performance of a procedure that involves the application of a high‑energy proton beam to a patient in a clinical setting for a therapeutic purpose;“radiation oncology and radiation therapy” means a treatment of any condition or disease using ionising radiation that —
is emitted from —
a sealed source (as defined in regulation 2 of the Radiation Protection (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2023 (G.N. No. S 85/2023)); or
an irradiating apparatus (as defined in regulation 2 of the Radiation Protection (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2023); and
does not involve the application of a proton beam.