Nghia Hoang, Author at Ward Index

The step-down layer between an acute hospital and home — community hospitals, day rehabilitation, home care — who is referred there, what it costs, and how MediShield Life and subsidies apply.

Where IVF and fertility treatment happen in Singapore, the public and private centres, what a cycle costs, and how the government co-funding, MediSave and age limits work.

What changes when you are not a citizen or permanent resident — no subsidy, no MediShield Life — and how employer plans, international plans and local plans compare on panels, exclusions and claims.

Singapore has one tertiary psychiatric institution, not ten. What IMH's 24-hour service actually offers, where general hospital psychiatry fits, and which routes need no referral.

Where ear, nose and throat conditions are treated in Singapore — from children's tonsils to head and neck cancer and cochlear implants — with the referral route and cost band for each.

Where kidney stones, prostate disease, bladder and urological cancers are treated in Singapore, which units do the surgical volume, and what the common procedures cost by ward class.

The renal units at five public hospitals and the two dialysis charities, with the referral rule that decides your subsidy, published consultation fees, and the dates each was read.

Where diabetes, thyroid and hormone disorders are treated in Singapore, why most diabetes stays at the polyclinic, and which hospital clinics handle the cases that do not, with costs.

The neuroscience institute runs at two sites on opposite sides of the city. Which one a referral names, what a visit costs subsidised and private, and where surgical and medical neurology part ways.

Where cancer is diagnosed and treated in Singapore — the two national centres, the general hospitals and the private groups — with referral routes, what MediShield Life pays for drugs, and cost bands.