FROM Monday, patients will be able to withdraw up to 80 per cent more from their Medisave accounts to pay for operations.
The Health Ministry expects this to cut the out-of-pocket payments for about 300,000 private patients a year.
Announcing the change earlier this year, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said it was in response to calls by middle-income people who wanted to use their hefty Medisave accounts rather than dip into their pockets to pay for hospital treatments.
