New base medical insurance plan to begin by month’s end

The new base medical and health insurance/takaful (MHIT) plan will enter its pilot phase by the end of this month as authorities step up efforts to ­tackle rising medical costs.

Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan said the pilot programme, involving selected insurers, takaful operators and private hospitals in the Klang Valley, forms part of the government’s RESET strategy introduced in June last year to address rising healthcare costs and private medical insurance premiums.

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