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Table 9 Overview of tests in cheapest packages by provider

From: Screening is not always healthy: an ethical analysis of health screening packages in Singapore

Name of provider

Cost (S$)

Recommended tests (available under ‘Screen for Life’)^

Non-recommended tests (category 2 and 3)

Diabetes (fasting blood glucose)

Cholesterol (lipid panel)

Colorectal cancer (stool blood)

Cervical cancer (Pap or HPV test)

Breast cancer (mammogram)

Blood (non-tumour markers)

Blood (tumour markers)

Urine test

ECG

Chest x-ray

Public

 Changi General Hospital

360.00

✓

✓

   

✓

 

✓

✓

 

 National University Hospital

260.00

✓

✓

     

✓

  

 Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

88.00

✓

✓

        

 Singapore General Hospital

363.80

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

 Tan Tock Seng Hospital

200.00

✓

✓

✓

       

Private

 AcuMed Medical Group

26.00

✓

✓

   

✓

    

 Fullerton Health

500.76

✓

(+ HbA1c)

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

 Healthway Medical Group

350.00

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

 Lifescan Medical Centre

180.00

✓

(+ HbA1c)

✓

✓

  

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

 Mount Alvernia Hospital

131.60

✓

✓

   

✓

  

✓

 

 Parkway Shenton Medical Group

100.00

✓

✓

   

✓

 

✓

  

 Raffles Medical Group

74.90

✓

✓

   

✓

 

✓

✓

 

Social enterprise

 NTUC Income

187.25

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

 SATA Commhealth

275.00

✓

(+ HbA1c)

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

  1. ^Hypertension screening is not included in this table as a blood pressure reading is usually obtained during the physical examination rather than an investigation