{"id":987735909,"date":"2024-11-30T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&p=987735909"},"modified":"2024-11-30T07:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T06:51:06","slug":"malaysias-ministry-of-health-explores-adoption-of-diagnostic-related-groups","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/malaysias-ministry-of-health-explores-adoption-of-diagnostic-related-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia’s Ministry of Health explores adoption of Diagnostic Related Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – SUMMARY – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your summary. The summary condenses the main points for the news that starts below. The summary is in bold and not longer than 300 characters, including spaces. The counter at the bottom can help.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]Malaysia\u2019s Health Minister has announced that Ministry of Health is exploring the adoption of the Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG) payment system in private hospitals to address rising healthcare costs.<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 1 – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]According to The Edge Malaysia, as reported by Syafiqah Salim, Malaysia’s Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad stated that Ministry of Health has begun exploring the adoption of the DRG payment system.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still a work in progress. I have spoken to my medical adviser, Tan Sri Abu Bakar Suleiman, and we are really looking into it,\u201d the Health Minister said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The DRG payment categorizes patients based on the complexity of their cases to determine the cost of treatment, rather than itemizing individual services. The initiative aims to curb escalating hospital expenses in the private healthcare sector.<\/p>\n

The article added that the Minister emphasized the importance of ongoing discussions to make private healthcare services more affordable and reasonable. He also urged private hospitals to manage their pricing structures for the benefit of the population.<\/p>\n

In addition, he opposed the Bank Negera Malaysia’s decision requiring insurers and takaful operations to introduce co-payment in all new health and medical insurance products of at least mininum 5% of the claimable expense, arguing that it would transfer financial burden on patients.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 2 – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malaysia\u2019s Health Minister has announced that Ministry of Health is exploring the adoption of the Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG) payment system in private hospitals to address rising healthcare costs.According to The Edge Malaysia, as reported by Syafiqah Salim, Malaysia’s Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad stated that Ministry of Health has begun exploring the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987735912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130,132],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987735909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987735909"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987735909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987735935,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987735909\/revisions\/987735935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987735912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987735909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987735909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987735909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}