Tag: Costs
Medical cost to come down with the gradual exit of TPA,...
Dr Girdhar J Gyani, Director, General, Association of Healthcare Providers (India) believes that the government is no more encouraging the involvement of third party administrators and is rather encouraging the involvement of Trusts to control medical costs...……..
Free hospital care not enough to ensure equal access by women,...
A new study has found that despite comparable proportions of women and men in the population, women had a lower share of hospitalizations (42%), bed-days (45%) and hospital costs (39%) for sex-neutral conditions than men...……...
Govt cracks the whip, fixes ceiling prices of orthopaedic knee implants
While making it clear that overcharging of knee implants would be strictly monitored and penalized, the government has termed the move to cap their prices as a step to ensure affordable and quality healthcare..........
Increased GST on medtech means higher medical costs for patients: MTaI
In its latest statement, the Medical Technology Association of India has pointed out that it would have helped if the medical services were zero-rated, similar to exports, where full tax credit against inputs would be refundable........
A step closer to a simpler & affordable oral cholera vaccine
After the successful toxicology studies, the promising Cholera vaccine “HILLCHOLTM is currently undergoing human clinical trial Phase I/II in collaboration with ICDDR, B and Incepta Vaccine Ltd in Bangladesh..........