Cut Practice In Maharastra hospitals: KEM Dean Issues list of Measures
"Doctors and hospitals' administrators will be held accountable if patients are unnecessarily referred to private labs"-- Dr Avinash Supe, Medical Director and Dean of KEM Hospital.
Mumbai: Acting on the presumed thriving nexus between certain BMC Hospital doctors and private sector pathological laboratories, the dean of KEM hospital has issued a list of measures to curb the practice of 'receiving commission' for referring patients popularly known in the medical field as "cut practice".
While issuing an order recently, Dr Avinash Supe, Medical Director and Dean of KEM Hospital, clearly integrated that the BMC hospitals' own labs are well-equipped to handle all sorts of pathological investigations and there should be no need to involve a private laboratory, barring a few exceptional cases.
To prevent the outflow of tests, the order included the following measures
- Prominently displaying a list of all the tests available in-house.
- Barring entry of agents representing private labs in civic hospitals.
- No sample to be sent to a private lab without the clearance of a senior lecturer and the chief medical officer.
- From now on, all BMC-run hospitals will have to maintain a log of patients referred to private labs.
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