SINGAPORE: Ten doctors have been ordered by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to undergo mandatory training after they were found to have made non-compliant MediShield Life claims between January and October.

The doctors – who were not named – were found to have submitted claims that breached MOH’s guidelines, including inappropriate multi-coding, upcoding, and submitting cosmetic procedures as medical claims, said the ministry on Thursday (Nov 13).

These claims involved practices such as inappropriate multi-coding, upcoding, inappropriate treatment, and submitting cosmetic procedures as medical claims.