CHAS Accreditation Criteria

  1. Only Applicants with a valid licence under the Healthcare Services Act ("HCSA") should apply to participate in the Community Health Assist Scheme ("CHAS"). Where the Applicant is a medical clinic, the clinic and general practitioner are required to be accredited under the Chronic Disease Management Programme in order to apply to participate in CHAS.
  2. In addition, clinic from which that Applicant intends to provide CHAS benefits or HSG benefits is a medical clinic and that the clinic is approved as an "approved CIT medical institution" under the Central Provident Fund (MediSave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (including whether a minimum of two (2) staff has completed the mandatory e-learning requirements of which (i) all of them shall satisfy the requirements under 3c,d and e and (ii) at least one shall have a valid practising certification and is registered under the Medical Registration Act 1997 or Dental Registration Act 1999. These staff members shall be responsible to disseminate knowledge of all content in such CHAS training to the Applicant, and its staff/personnel after completing the training.
  3. Further, please note that the Government has the sole and absolute discretion to accept or reject an Applicant’s application to participate in CHAS. The applications will be assessed based on various criteria, including but not limited to the following:
    1. whether the Applicant and all Key Personnel (any person indicated as the licensee in a Licence of the Applicant or Participating Licensee; any person indicated as the clinic manager in the application form submitted by the Applicant or Participating Licensee to obtain a License; any Clinical Governance Officer of the Applicant or Participating Licensee; or any Principal Officer of the Applicant or Participating Licensee) have the ability and capacity to submit accurate Claim Forms and Clinical Indicators Reports for the Healthcare Services provided by the clinic(s);
    2. whether the Applicant’s charges, before Subsidy, for Healthcare Services provided by the Applicant, whether past or present, are reasonable (as assessed by the Government);
    3. whether the Applicant, all the Key Personnel and the person(s) having management or control of the Applicant have a satisfactory track record under any applicable legislation or MOH healthcare financing or assistance schemes, including but not limited to:
      1. whether the Applicant any Key Personnel or any person having management or control of the Applicant owe any monies to the Government and/or have not completed their remedial actions for breaches in relation to any Government healthcare financing or assistance schemes (including CHAS);
      2. whether the Applicant, any Key Personnel or any person having management or control of the Applicant was or is a member of the management of, or a personnel/staff of a clinic that was suspended or terminated from any Government healthcare financing or assistance schemes (including CHAS), whether in the past or present;
    4. whether the Applicant, any Key Personnel or any person having management or control of the Applicant had any involvement or suspected involvement in the following, whether past or present:
      1. breach of any of the terms and conditions of any public scheme administered by the Government or any of its appointed agents, including the MediSave Scheme, the MediShield Life Scheme, CHAS and HSG;
      2. infringement of any healthcare licensing legislation, including the Medical Registration Act (Cap. 174) or the Dental Registration Act (Cap. 76);
      3. infringement of any professional or ethical guidelines or codes of conduct;
      4. conviction of any criminal offence specified in the Third Schedule to the Registration of Criminals Act (Cap. 268) or any other offence involving abuse, ill-treatment, assault or physical violence; and/or
      5. investigation by the Government and/or other relevant authorities relating to CHAS, dishonesty, fraud and/or infringement of any healthcare licensing legislation including the Medical Registration Act 1997 or the Dental Registration Act 1999; and/or
    5. whether all the Key Personnel are deemed fit and proper persons (as assessed by the Government) to be participating in CHAS.