drug price display mandate Archives

9 June 2025

Malaysia

Private Hospitals Implement Drug Price Display In Outpatient

Private hospitals have begun implementing medicine price display in outpatient settings, says APHM. The private hospitals' association also calls for the implementation of the amended Medical Act to enable Malaysian specialists to return home from abroad.

6 June 2025

Malaysia

Doctors’ Group ‘Disappointed’ With Broken Promise Of GP Fee Review

FPMPAM expresses "deep disappointment" with Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad's broken promise, made on May 3, of reviewing GP consultation fees within a month. The doctors' group says Naccol's concerns about the impact of a fee increase are "misplaced".

27 May 2025

Malaysia

GP Blames TPA, Corporate Payment Delays For Drug Price Markups

A GP in KL defends higher drug prices in GP clinics, citing delayed payments from corporate clients and TPAs/MCOs that take 2-3 months on average. Sometimes, GP clinics face payment delays of a whopping 1-2 years. "So how do GPs cover all this? Medicine."

26 May 2025

Malaysia

GP Clinic’s Medicine Price Display Draws Salesmen Instead Of Patients

A CodeBlue visit to a private GP clinic in KL during peak hours found no patients looking at the drug price list displayed, except for one medical salesman. The GP defends marking up medicine prices to cover costs; he hasn't drawn a salary in 8 months.

23 May 2025

Opinion

Decentralised Approach To New Clinic Fees Shifts Balance Of Power

Doctor groups’ decentralised approach to introducing new fees, in addition to doctor's consultation, in private clinics across multiple states (so far, Sarawak, Sabah, Penang & potentially Selangor/KL) shifts the balance of power from Putrajaya to doctors.

23 May 2025

Malaysia

Sabah Private Medical Clinics Introduce Four New Fees

A doctors' group recommends 3+1 new patient fees for private GP and specialist clinics in Sabah: facility fee (RM5-RM15), patient registration fee (RM5-RM10), RCC (RM5-RM20), plus an optional prescription fee (RM5-RM10) for prescriptions filled outside.

22 May 2025

Malaysia

Domino Effect: Penang GPs To Charge Service Fees

Drug price display has triggered a domino effect: a doctors' group plans to advise a service fee in Penang private medical clinics, after its Sarawak counterpart recommended a prescription fee plus 2 new fees. Selangor/KL practitioners mull a facility fee.

21 May 2025

Malaysia

Selangor, KL Private Medical Clinics Mull Introducing New Facility Fee

A doctors' group will decide next week on whether to recommend private GP and specialist clinics in Selangor & KL to charge patients new facility and registration fees, after its Sarawak counterpart advised three new fees in response to drug price display.

20 May 2025

Malaysia

Sarawak GPs Introduce Prescription Fees, New Charges For Quality Care

A doctors' group advised private GPs in Sarawak to introduce 3 new optional charges from last May 1 to maintain quality care: prescription fee (RM5-RM10), registration fee (RM5-RM10) & regulatory compliance charge (RM5-RM20) as consult fees are capped low.

16 May 2025

Malaysia

MPS Wants Dispensing Fees For Pharmacists, Mandatory Prescriptions For Doctors

The Malaysian Pharmacists Society (MPS) calls for dispensing and professional fees for pharmacists to enable community pharmacies to deliver health services, besides a mandatory prescription policy. MPS stopped short of calling for dispensing separation.

Tag: drug price display mandate

Doctors’ Group ‘Disappointed’ With Broken Promise Of GP Fee Review

GP Blames TPA, Corporate Payment Delays For Drug Price Markups

GP Clinic’s Medicine Price Display Draws Salesmen Instead Of Patients

Decentralised Approach To New Clinic Fees Shifts Balance Of Power

Sabah Private Medical Clinics Introduce Four New Fees

Domino Effect: Penang GPs To Charge Service Fees

Selangor, KL Private Medical Clinics Mull Introducing New Facility Fee

Sarawak GPs Introduce Prescription Fees, New Charges For Quality Care

MPS Wants Dispensing Fees For Pharmacists, Mandatory Prescriptions For Doctors

HSAJB Probes Doctor’s Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Anaesthesiologist

Taiping Hospital Medical Officers Drowning Under Cluster Expansions, Zero Housemen — Medical Officer

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