MUMBAI : The Maharashtra state government has capped the prices of a host of medical procedures for private and charitable hospitals in the state to prevent healthcare providers from hiking their charges during the covid-19 pandemic.
However, the government’s move has left private hospitals peeved as the government’s caps on these procedures are a fraction of the prices private hospitals would otherwise charge.
Calling on the sweeping powers under The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and The Disaster Management Act, 2005, the state government said that “to redress the grievances regarding the exorbitant amount of money charged bu healthcare providers from patients who are not covered by any health insurance product or who have exhausted their