In November 2018, the Fee Benchmark Advisory Committee (FBAC) convened by the Ministry of Health (MOH) published recommendations on reasonable surgeon fees in the private sector — commonly called the "Fee Benchmarks" — for 222 common procedures.
In its 2020 report, the FBAC extended the benchmarks to anaesthetist fees (published February 2021).
The latest edition was published on 1 June 2026 and covers roughly 2,180 surgical procedures. This site indexes 2,179 of them, of which 621 carry an anaesthetist fee benchmark.
For each procedure the benchmark gives a fee range — a lower and an upper bound. Per the FBAC, the lower end is generally associated with less complex cases and the higher end with more complex cases. The upper bound is not a fee cap.
The FBAC noted that the TOSP is organised by surgical complexity alone and does not consider anaesthetic complexity. The anaesthetist fee range is meant to reflect the anaesthetic risk, effort, complexity and time of each procedure: the lower bound is generally for healthy patients / those with lower anaesthetic risk, while the upper bound is generally for patients with multiple or poorly controlled medical conditions / higher anaesthetic risk.
Of the 2,179 procedures listed here, 621 have an anaesthetist fee benchmark; the rest show "– not applicable".
Where a procedure has no anaesthetist fee benchmark, there has been no official guidance on how to charge. Common suggestions include referencing similar procedures that do carry a benchmark, and using historical fees as a guide.
In its Recommendation on Anaesthesia Fees 2019, the College of Anaesthesiologists, Singapore (CAS) set out the principle of making fees "commensurate with risk, effort and time". The document states a time ceiling expected for each covered procedure, so that the anaesthesiologist may charge in proration with time should a case exceed the ceiling. This principle was reaffirmed in the FBAC's 2020 report.
Where a time ceiling is defined, it is shown alongside the anaesthetist fee in each procedure's detail. The CAS defines ceilings for a subset of procedures (about 220); where none is defined, the field shows "–".
Per MOH, on the matter of when more than one surgical procedure is carried out:
“The recommended benchmarks are for cases in which only a single procedure is performed on the patient on any one occasion. However, in some cases, it could be in patients’ interest to perform more than one procedure in the same sitting. In general, if the combination of procedures results in savings in time and effort, e.g. surgery performed through the same incision, the fees should not be the sum of individual fees should the procedures be carried out on separate occasions. Nonetheless, where doctors assess that a “1+1” computation is fair, e.g. if performing the combination of procedures together in a sitting involves higher complexity, effort, risk and time than if done separately, they can do so with proper justification. Doctors are reminded to use only one TOSP code where a single procedure sufficiently caters or describes what was being carried out.”
Where MOH publishes a specific combined benchmark for a pair of procedures — currently SF701I (Upper GI Endoscopy) and SF702C (Colonoscopy) performed in the same sitting — that combined range is flagged on each procedure’s card and applies in place of the individual fees.
Fee data is sourced from the Ministry of Health, Singapore — Fee Benchmarks & Bill Amount Information (Table of Surgical Procedures), latest edition published 1 June 2026. Time ceilings are sourced from the CAS Recommendation on Anaesthesia Fees 2019 (Annex D).
Official source: MOH — Bills and Fee Benchmarks.
For reference only. Figures are indicative ranges and may change. Always verify against the official MOH source before relying on any figure. TOSPSTOP is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by MOH or CAS.