Tag: private general practitioners (GPs)

11 March 2024

Doctors’ Group Expects Higher Medical Indemnity Insurance Premiums After Landmark Court Ruling

FPMPAM expects a hike in doctors' professional indemnity insurance premiums that will raise the cost of practising medicine after a landmark Federal Court ruling on medical negligence. "We are clearly headed for a US style defensive practice of medicine."

6 March 2024

Malaysia

Selcare Isn’t Your Typical TPA With Fast Payments, No Consultation Fee Cap

Selcare Management, a Selangor state-owned TPA, has no cap on consultation fees or a list of reimbursable meds. Panel clinics get paid in a month. Klinik Aurora says the lack of a cap on consultation fees leads to better patient recovery and satisfaction.

19 December 2023

Malaysia

Restrictive Madani Medical Scheme Underfunded, GPs Moot Co-Payments

FPMPAM and MPCAM want a co-payment model in the Madani Medical Scheme, which they say is underfunded, to enable GPs and patients to make their own decisions on care. Doctor groups also complain about excessive paperwork that discourages GPs from joining.

3 November 2023

Malaysia

Madani Medical Scheme Benefits 213,193 Low-Income Households

The Madani Medical Scheme has benefitted 213,193 households and 355,467 outpatients, as of October 2023, Dr Zaliha Mustafa says.

10 October 2023

Malaysia

Doctors Seek Government Action To Protect Patient Rights And Safety

The task force urges the government to enact regulations in order to regulate Managed Care Organisations (MCOs).

4 October 2023

Letter

The ‘Middleman’ In The Health Care Industry: MCO/ TPA/ HMO — Dr Chang Chee Seong

It is mind-boggling to imagine why TPA/ MCO/ HMOs, who are indulging in health care-related services, are placed under the purview of Bank Negara and not under a division of the Ministry of Health.

3 October 2023

Malaysia

Over 2,000 Doctors Petition PM To Regulate Managed Care Organisations

Over 2,000 private GPs and specialist doctors have signed a petition to PM Anwar to enact the long overdue MCO Act to regulate managed care organisations; the bill should hold MCOs liable for adverse patient outcomes caused by undue constraints imposed.

26 September 2023

Letter

Managed Care Organisations And Third-Party Administrators: The Final Frontier In Primary Care — Dr John Teo

There seems to be no plausible reason why MCOs or TPAs, which can have such far-reaching effects on health care services and delivery are left unchecked and unregulated, but clinics and doctors are micromanaged and strangulated with unending requirements.

25 September 2023

Malaysia

MMA: Allow Patients’ Co-Payments For Madani Medical Scheme

MMA urges the government to allow willing patients to make co-payments under the Madani Medical Scheme, as the combined consultation & med limit per visit is only RM70. MMA also wants ProtectHealth listed in MOH's TPA registry if the company is a TPA.

25 September 2023

Letter

Having Middlemen In Private Medical Care Is Bad – Dr Mohd Tajudin Shaffee

"Experience over the past 20 years has shown that the MCO business model is that of cost control by 'rationing of care', not 'cost-containment'. It imposes rationing, exclusions, and limits choice, in order to control cost to increase their profit margin."

Tag: private general practitioners (GPs)

Doctors’ Group Expects Higher Medical Indemnity Insurance Premiums After Landmark Court Ruling

Selcare Isn’t Your Typical TPA With Fast Payments, No Consultation Fee Cap

Restrictive Madani Medical Scheme Underfunded, GPs Moot Co-Payments

Madani Medical Scheme Benefits 213,193 Low-Income Households

Doctors Seek Government Action To Protect Patient Rights And Safety

The ‘Middleman’ In The Health Care Industry: MCO/ TPA/ HMO — Dr Chang Chee Seong

Over 2,000 Doctors Petition PM To Regulate Managed Care Organisations

Managed Care Organisations And Third-Party Administrators: The Final Frontier In Primary Care — Dr John Teo

MMA: Allow Patients’ Co-Payments For Madani Medical Scheme

Having Middlemen In Private Medical Care Is Bad – Dr Mohd Tajudin Shaffee

UiTM Willing To ‘Temporarily’ Open Up Cardiothoracic Surgery Postgrad Programme To Non-Bumi Parallel Pathway Trainees, Graduates: Professor

Prove Direct UK GMC Recognition Of Cardiothoracic Surgery Parallel Pathway: Ex-MATCVS President

Don’t Be ‘Jaguh Kampung’, Senator Tells Local Master’s Medicine Proponents

UiTM ‘Confident’ Of Getting MMC Recognition For Rigorous Malaysia’s First Local Cardiothoracic Surgery Programme

MOH And Universities Play Separate Roles: UiTM HOD