Corrections

Why this page exists

A reference site is only worth the figures in it, and the honest way to show that those figures are checked is to publish the times they were not.

Everything below was live on this site and read by people before it was corrected. Each entry says what was published, what the source actually says, and which document the replacement came from. Corrections are listed newest first.

24 September 2026 — surgical costs in two entries were understated

Both entries carried a table of costs across public and private settings. The figures were not traceable to any published source, and the private column in particular was too low.

Urology. A radical prostatectomy at a private hospital was given as S$40,000–60,000. The Ministry of Health’s published typical bill range for the procedure is S$58,607–71,599 — the old ceiling was near the new floor. Shock wave lithotripsy was given as S$4,000–7,000 privately against a published S$9,837–12,348, roughly half.

Ear, nose and throat. A private tonsillectomy was given as S$7,000–12,000 against a published S$12,641–15,838. Ear tubes were given as S$3,500–6,000 against S$7,770–10,246.

Both tables were rebuilt against the ministry’s bill information by procedure code, and each row now names the code it was read from. Two rows in the ENT table — endoscopic sinus surgery and septoplasty — were removed rather than corrected, because the ministry publishes no figures for those codes at all.

24 September 2026 — ward occupancy was stated as a national fact

The ward class entry described beds per room as though the numbers were the same everywhere: four in B1, five or six in B2, eight or nine in C.

They are not. A class C room is up to eight beds at Singapore General, six for a woman and eight for a child at KK Women’s and Children’s, and a ten-bedded open ward at Khoo Teck Puat. The column was replaced with a table naming each hospital, and the entry now says to ask the one admitting you.

The daily ward rates in the same entry were also below what all three hospitals actually charge, and were replaced with each hospital’s published figures.

23 September 2026 — a screening programme under a retired name

The health screening entry described the national programme as Screen for Life. It is published as Healthier SG Screening, and the older pages no longer resolve, so a reader following the name would have found nothing.

Two other claims in the same entry had no source behind them. It stated that permanent residents pay “a somewhat higher flat fee”; the programme publishes no such rate for most tests and directs people to ask the clinic. It also printed upper age limits of 69 and 75 for cancer screening; the eligibility rules set no upper limit. Both were removed rather than adjusted.

23 September 2026 — an overstated hospital bill for foreigners

The expat health insurance entry priced a laparoscopic appendicectomy in an A-class public ward at S$12,000–18,000. The published typical bill range is S$7,600–10,000 — an overstatement of roughly eighty per cent. Two other rows in the same table, an MRI and an emergency attendance, had no published source and were removed.

Rows removed for want of a source

Several tables lost lines entirely rather than being corrected, because nothing published supported them. Monthly costs for diabetes drugs and insulin. Bands for a chemotherapy cycle and a course of radiotherapy. Waiting times by referral route. Length of stay by ward class. In each case the entry now says what is published instead, or says plainly that the figure is not available and who to ask.

An invented band is not a cautious estimate. It is a number with nothing behind it, and it is wrong in whichever direction the guess happened to fall — two of the corrections above were too high and two were too low.

How to report one

Send the entry URL, the sentence you think is wrong, and a source that contradicts it, through the contact page. If the source holds up, the entry is corrected, its revision date changes, and the correction appears here.