He is expected to be sentenced in August after pleading guilty.
Wong Choo Wai, the owner of the Bedok Day & Night Clinic and the Jurong Day & Night Clinic at the time of the offences, pleaded guilty to two cheating charges on June 14.
In 2000, MOH rolled out Chas to help lower-income patients receive subsidies for medical and dental treatments at participating clinics. On June 15 that year, he also signed a similar agreement with the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics on behalf of his Jurong clinic. As part of the initiative, participating clinics must submit their claims through an online portal known as eChas within a month from a patient’s visit.These included information such as the patients’ personal data, the dates of visit, the types of conditions treated and the cost breakdown of the claims.
These would be presented to MOH Holdings – the appointed auditor by MOH for Chas claims – when MOHH performed audits of the claims that the clinics had submitted. On at least 21 occasions between August and December 2016, he also made false entries in his patients’ clinical records, falsely recording that they had consulted him for certain medical ailments when, in fact, they had not.
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