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Insurers, private hospitals need to formulate policy to address concerns of all stakeholders in India: Report
Express Healthcare
|January 2020
Currently, there are disparities in pricing of surgical procedures by private healthcare facilities
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The Insurance Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI), insurance companies and private hospitals should come together to formulate a policy that addresses the concerns of all the stakeholders and does not impact the quality of surgical treatment in India, says GlobalData.
Recently, insurers and third-party administrators (TPAs) in India came together to standardise the prices of common surgical procedures such as angioplasty, kidney transplantation, cataract and hernia with a view to ultimately help both patients and insurance companies.
This story is from the January 2020 edition of Express Healthcare.
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