The medical costs incurred by motor vehicle accident patients who receive treatment at the Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) is estimated using multiple regression analysis. The contributing factors such as age, gender, type of treatments and patient's status (inpatient or outpatient) are analyzed and studied in order to determine their effects on charges that HUKM imposed. This study determines the relationship between the charges imposed by the hospital (amount paid by the patient) and the contributing factors. The results of this study indicate that the contributing factors considered have positive influences and are significantly related to the treatment charges imposed at the 90% confidence level. In addition, the findings show that multiple linear model with transformation towards to be the best model.

In Malaysia, the increase in road accidents is associated with the rapid growth of the population, economic development, industrialization and motorization experienced by the nation. In the early 1970s and 1980s, the government concentrated on agriculture and resource-based manufacturing that utilized local resources. In the 1990s, the government established Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) and encouraged multinational companies to invest. The move towards industrialization has led to an increase in the number of motor vehicles. Since the 1970s, Malaysia has also been experiencing an increase in the population with an average growth rate of about 2.1% per year (Department of Statistics, 2005). In addition, the total length of road has also increased, from 12,340 km in 1976 to 71,814 km in 2005, to accommodate an increase in numbers of vehicles in Malaysia. As described in Table 1, the total of new registered vehicles with the Road Transport Department has increased from 1.43 million in 1976 to 15.03 million in 2005. Sadly, increased motor vehicles lead to increase in road accidents. Road accidents comprise one of the major social problems in Malaysia. As presented in Table 1, the Royal Malaysian Police (2005) reports that road accidents in Malaysia has increased from 48,291 cases in 1976 to more than 300,000 cases in 2004 onwards.