Tag: medicine price display

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26 May 2025
Opinion

Patients Caught In The Crossfire Of Price Display Turf War

CodeBlue senior health writer Alifah is disgusted at how a simple drug price display mandate degenerated into a turf war between doctors, pharmacists, and Putrajaya, with patients left paying the price, literally. "As a consumer, I’m all for transparency."
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23 May 2025
Malaysia

Dominoes Keep Falling: Perak GPs To Charge Three New Fees

Perak is the 5th state to jump on the bandwagon of private GPs introducing new patient charges, with a Perak doctors' group recommending 3 new fees (prescription, registration, facility fees), following Sabah, Sarawak, Penang, and potentially Selangor/KL.
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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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13 May 2025
Malaysia

MOH To Review Placing Drug Price Display Under Act 586

Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad tells doctors, “I hear you loud and clear", announcing that he and MOH's top brass are reviewing doctors' proposal for MOH to take jurisdiction of drug price display by placing it under Act 586 instead of Act 723 under KPDN.
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12 May 2025
Letter

Medication Can’t Be Compared To Maggi Mee — Dr John Teo

Dr John Teo says drug price is only one of many factors in health care that can lead to either an early death or a long life. A doctor isn't the same as a shopkeeper. A patient isn't the same as a consumer. Neither can medication be compared to Maggi mee.