The Medical Fee Exemption Card offers health coverage exemption for medical fees for standard hospitalisation treatment in Singapore.
This card helps you to get health care fee exemption on treatment costs and fees. It covers standard medical and hospitalisation treatment at government/restructured hospitals and polyclinics for needy residents of nursing homes.
You must be a Singapore citizen, Permanent Resident or a stateless person with documents from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to prove you are not an illegal immigrant.
Your savings must be $6,000 or less, and you must have monthly per capita family income of $800 or less.
Approach a medical social worker at the institution your loved one is staying in. The medical social worker will apply for the card for them.
This article was last reviewed on Friday, December 13, 2019