drug price display mandate Archives

12 May 2025

Malaysia

Unlike Retailers, Doctors Make ‘Life And Death’ Decisions

Doctors say they should be exempt from Act 723 because they save lives, studied in tough medical school, and do CPD. Patients can’t make "informed choices" in medicine because they lack expert knowledge; doctors provide this service and are liable for it.

9 May 2025

Letter

A Simple Example For The KPDN Minister — Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah

Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah tells the KPDN minister that clinics are private health care services under Act 586, not retail outlets. It's like how a customer at a mamak restaurant doesn't need to know the price of raw chicken in a plate of nasi goreng ayam.

9 May 2025

Letter

Minister, A Clinic Is Not A Kedai Runcit — Dr James Jeremiah

Dr James Jeremiah schools the KPDN minister, saying transactions in a kedai runcit are "purely commercial", unlike a clinic where doctors hold duty of care and legal liability. "When doctors err, they face lawsuits, suspensions, and even criminal charges."

8 May 2025

Malaysia

Act 723: Everyone Is Equal Before The Law, Says Armizan

Domestic Trade Minister Armizan says there are no exemptions to the use of Act 723. Professionals and traders are the same status among sellers in the context of universal consumer rights. Act 723 was used for masks, vaccines, and test kits during Covid.

7 May 2025

Malaysia

Lawyers: Mandatory Drug Price Display Potentially Breaches Doctors’ Dispensing Rights

Two lawyers say the drug price display order potentially contravenes the right of doctors and dentists under the Poisons Act to dispense meds to their patients for treatment, besides citing a Federal Court ruling on ivermectin. A third lawyer disagrees.

30 April 2025

Malaysia

Failure To Display Drug Prices Punishable With Maximum RM100,000 Fine

The drug price display order under KPDN for private health care facilities and pharmacies has been gazetted and is effective May 1. Contravention is punishable with max RM100,000 fine (for body corporate). There is a 3-month educational enforcement period.

30 April 2025

Malaysia

Drug Price Display May Backfire, Worsen Medical Inflation: Galen Centre

The Galen Centre says drug price display may backfire and exacerbate medical inflation instead, as private health care facilities could take advantage of consumers' lack of specialised knowledge about medicine and collectively raise prices after display.

29 April 2025

Malaysia

Dentists Raise Medico-Legal Risks From Drug Price Display

The Malaysian Private Dental Practitioners’ Association opposes drug price display, saying a price list can mislead patients into thinking that they can choose their own medications. Misinterpretations expose dental clinics to potential medico-legal risks.

22 April 2025

Malaysia

15 Groups Oppose Drug Price Display Under KPDN

15 groups, mostly medical associations, protest against the medicine price display mandate, saying that if KPDN wants to bring doctors' professional services under Act 723, then the medical profession must be gazetted as a trade, which will affect care.

3 March 2025

Malaysia

Doctors’ Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Drug Price Display Mandate

FPMPAM has threatened to file a judicial review over the drug price display mandate if it is enforced at GP clinics. The doctors' group also opposes placing the price display mandate in KPDN's purview under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act.

Tag: drug price display mandate

Unlike Retailers, Doctors Make ‘Life And Death’ Decisions

A Simple Example For The KPDN Minister — Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah

Minister, A Clinic Is Not A Kedai Runcit — Dr James Jeremiah

Act 723: Everyone Is Equal Before The Law, Says Armizan

Lawyers: Mandatory Drug Price Display Potentially Breaches Doctors’ Dispensing Rights

Failure To Display Drug Prices Punishable With Maximum RM100,000 Fine

Drug Price Display May Backfire, Worsen Medical Inflation: Galen Centre

Dentists Raise Medico-Legal Risks From Drug Price Display

15 Groups Oppose Drug Price Display Under KPDN

Doctors’ Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Drug Price Display Mandate

Newcastle University Admits Malaysia Medical Graduates Deprioritised For UK Training

High Court Rules Liquid Nicotine Was Delisted Unlawfully

Unfair Treatment At HTJS — Houseman

Cardiothoracic Surgery Parallel Pathway Produces ‘Malaysian Qualification’: RCSEd

Health DG’s Circular Welcome Breather For Housemen — Dr Ghazali Ahmad