Tag: GP clinics

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10 August 2026
Malaysia

MMA Slams Insurer’s RM50 Limit For GP Visits

MMA protests against an insurer’s RM50 limit for GP visits, pointing out that RM50 for consultation and meds was inadequate as far back as 2018, nearly a decade ago. AIA touts the primary care benefit in its new medical plan as the first in the market.
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13 October 2025
Malaysia

At Town Hall, GPs Demand Fee Revision To RM40 To RM125

At a Penang town hall organised by PMPS and FPMPAM, GPs demand that their consultation fees be raised to RM40-RM125, pointing out that the majority of their cases are from TPAs. FPMPAM wants TPAs to be prohibited from paying doctors the statutory minimum.
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9 June 2025
Malaysia

MPCAM Proposes RM50 To RM80 GP Consultation Fee

MPCAM calls for GP consultation fees to be raised to RM50-RM80 from the current RM10-RM35. The doctors' group says patient bills at GP clinics will stay the same even if consultation fees are increased to minimum RM55, as clinics will cut medicine charges.
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14 May 2025
Malaysia

Patients Are Not ‘Consumers’, Says GP

Dr Pearl Leong, a GP in KL, says she has patients, not "consumers", adding that she's more cost-conscious than her patients. She says pharmacies often don't follow her prescriptions for generic meds and give her patients more expensive supplements instead.
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1 May 2025
Malaysia

KPDN Takes Action On Day One Of Drug Price Display

Despite a 3-month grace period announced by ministers, KPDN enforcement officers allegedly visited at least one medical clinic today, the first day of the drug price display mandate, and threatened to issue compounds in 3 days' time if no display by then.
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1 May 2025
Malaysia

‘Betrayed’ Doctors To March Against Drug Price Display

MMA is organising a march from KKM Putrajaya to PMO on May 6 to protest against drug price display that was imposed unilaterally, considered a "betrayal" of doctors. "General practitioners across the country have every reason to feel frustrated and angry."