SINGAPOREANS may be allowed to use their Medisave to pay for treatment overseas, but only if it is done through a local hospital.

Although the idea of using Medisave for foreign treatment has been raised before, this is the first time Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has suggested how it might work.

He said: 'Hospitals here with branches or formal relationships with reputable hospitals in the region, may find it sensible to outsource some of their routine in-patient or day surgery services to the foreign hospitals, through referring some of their patients there for lower-cost elective surgery.'

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