Market practice in govt privatised hospitals

Means testing starts today
Those in B2 and C class wards will be asked to consent to checks on their income
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent

Patients are free to refuse income checks. But this will mean they automatically get the smallest subsidy: 50 per cent for treatment in a B2 ward and 65 per cent in a C-class ward. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
PATIENTS warded in B2 and C class wards in