insurers may not be honoured by hospitals, adding to their distress at a time of crisis.Family members have had to frantically arrange large sums of cash at short notice as critical patients waited to be treated because hospitals wouldn’t accept cashless settlement of hospital bills by the insurance provider.Ahmedabad-based Parthiv Hitendrabhai Salot and his father contracted covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. “My father required immediate hospitalization because his lungs were affected," Salot said in an interview, recounting their troubles after they tested positive on 8 June.“All private hospitals I reached out to said they will not entertain cashless claims for covid-19 patients.