MP: Private Hospitals treating COVID patients can charge 40 percent more than rates prevalent before outbreak
Bhopal - The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday decided that private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients could charge only 40 per cent more than rates prevalent in the time before the outbreak.
It was also decided that patients being treated at private COVID-19 designated hospitals, which are authorized and in contract with the government, can voluntarily pay their bills.
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Such hospitals are currently treating patients free of cost.
After a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to review the coronavirus situation, Minister for Medical Education Minister Vishvas Sarang informed that there was some confusion about bills being raised by private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients.
"It was decided in the meeting that private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients can charge bills on the basis of rates fixed before February this year. They can charge a maximum 40 per cent more than the pre-February rates. Say, they were charging Rs 100 in February, then they can charge Rs 140 now," he said.
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