My dad has a chronic heart condition that requires regular health screenings and medication. Needless to say, health-care costs can add up quickly over the course of the year which can deplete the amount of MediSave he can use in a single year.
Every six months, he makes a trip to the heart centre and gets a re-supply of medication.
Pretty obvious from the invoice that Rivaroxaban is the killer here. With no subsidy, it is a whopping $492 bucks.
Rivaroxaban, sold under the brand name Xarelto, among others, is an oral anticoagulant medication (blood thinner). It is commonly used to prevent blood clots.
To be honest, I haven’t quite figured out how everything works, but what I did was to authorize my parents (my mum usually makes the trip to the doc with my dad) to use my MediSave whenever they need to. There is basically a form to sign, and don’t ...
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