SOCSO Health Screening – all is not well

Something is amiss with the health screening programme recently launched by SOCSO (see Star report Two million Socso members eligible for free health screening) PETALING JAYA: About two million private sector employees will be eligible for free medical check-ups from the Social Security Organisation (Socso). Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam is expected to announce the mechanism for the health screening for Socso members today. The move will benefit workers if they contract any non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension, among other things. It will also spur the workers to be more aware of their health. The initiative, announced under Budget 2013 by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, is targeted at Socso contributors aged 40 years and above. It is believed that the free check-ups will be applicable to Socso members who are still working. While laudable there have been quite a few hiccups in the implementation judging by the feedback in our Malaysian Doctors’ forum, Dobbs * There was initial confusion amongst the GPs as to which labs are amongst the panel/assigned labs * There was confusion as to how the payments would be made – apparently the doctors have to make the payments to the labs upfront prior to reimbursement from SOCSO, on supposedly negotiated rates, but some labs may not have been informed as per these doctors’ experience: Spoke to 3 labs yesterday. They will charge RM25 for the blood package but the rate...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc Health screening SOCSO Source Type: blogs