medical inflation Archives

28 November 2025

Malaysia

A TPA’s Medical Trend: Average RM9,300 Hospitalisation, RM131 GP Visit

PMCare, a TPA, reported average cost per visit/admission in 2024 at RM9,289 for hospitalisation, RM526 for specialists, and RM131 for GPs. Medical cost inflation under 1% for hospitalisation in 2024. Average GP cost: RM134 (RM100 meds + RM34 consultation).

13 November 2025

Letter

Finding The Equilibrium: Why Malaysia’s Health Care Needs Collaboration, Not Confrontation — Dr Raymond Choy

The solution lies not in litigation or finger-pointing, but in co-creating a new health care contract, one based on trust, transparency, and shared value.

27 October 2025

Malaysia

TMC Admits ‘Hard’ Balancing Act Between Health Care Providers, Payers

TMC Life Sciences says premium caps and cost pressures have pushed insurers to tighten controls, affecting hospital-insurer negotiations. The group says the industry is trying to find balance as doctors report increased payer interference in treatment decisions.

26 September 2025

Letter

The Same Surgeon, The Same Surgery: So Why Does The Price Blow Up? — Dr P. Raju

Medical inflation is not the ultimate fate. It comes from choices we made and can unmake.

18 September 2025

Opinion

Bank Negara’s ‘Reset’ Strategy Needs A Reset

Galen Centre lists 6 shortfalls with BNM's Reset strategy: unclear legal pathway, inadequate local cost data, ineffective price transparency, low participation for base MHIT, public opposition to GPs' role as gatekeepers, missing national health insurance.

17 September 2025

Malaysia

Bank Negara Risks ‘Resetting’ Malaysia Into Third World Country, Say Private Doctors

Bank Negara's Reset agenda with increased regulations crushing private health care services may push Malaysian specialist doctors to move abroad, potentially resetting Malaysia into a third world country with a lack of doctors and specialists, says ASPMP.

11 September 2025

Malaysia

MP Warns Of Europe-Style Tax Rates If Private Health Care Too Costly

Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin warns that Malaysians may face tax hikes up to European levels to fund the government health service if everyone seeks public health care, should private health care costs go unchecked and become unaffordable even for the rich.

8 September 2025

Malaysia

Investment-Linked Health Insurance Cut Coverage To Below 65 Years: Sim

Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin says two policyholders, currently in their 40s, had bought investment-linked health insurance plans in 2018 with RM2.1mil coverage and riders until age 100, but now face cuts in coverage period until age 64 and 59 respectively.

22 August 2025

Malaysia

Bank Negara’s Reset Strategy Touts GPs As Gatekeepers To Care

Bank Negara's Reset strategy positions GPs as the primary entry point to care before referrals to private hospitals, so as to reduce patients' self-referral to specialists. In the UK's NHS, patients need referral letters from their GP to see a specialist.

12 August 2025

Letter

GPs Made The Bogeyman To Hide Government Failures — Dr John Teo

Dr John Teo accuses the government of making GPs the "bogeyman" to hide its failure to provide adequate health care and coverage for all. The OBGYN notes that OOP spending in GP clinics is relatively low and stresses that private health care is optional.

Tag: medical inflation

A TPA’s Medical Trend: Average RM9,300 Hospitalisation, RM131 GP Visit

Finding The Equilibrium: Why Malaysia’s Health Care Needs Collaboration, Not Confrontation — Dr Raymond Choy

TMC Admits ‘Hard’ Balancing Act Between Health Care Providers, Payers

Bank Negara Risks ‘Resetting’ Malaysia Into Third World Country, Say Private Doctors

Investment-Linked Health Insurance Cut Coverage To Below 65 Years: Sim

Bank Negara’s Reset Strategy Touts GPs As Gatekeepers To Care

GPs Made The Bogeyman To Hide Government Failures — Dr John Teo

Bleak Future For Malaysia’s Health Assurance Industry — Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan

Nutritionists: Follow Malaysia’s Scientific Food Pyramid, Not US Inverted Pyramid

CodeBlue’s View: Doctors Must Follow The Law. Period.

Transfer Allowance Opened To Contract Doctors, Pharmacists, Dentists With 2025 Permanent Appointments: Minister

Digital Ministry Opens RM87m Tender For MySejahtera App Maintenance Over Three Years