Health Groups Seek Regulation of Private Hospital Charges, Medicine Margins

Concerns over hospital bills of patients sans insurance shield

Activists warn uninsured patients may pay higher private hospital bills than insured; call for rate regulation, transparent pricing, and caps on medicine mark-ups.

Health groups seek regulation of private hospital charges, medicine margins

JSA, Working Group on Access to Medicines and Treatment call for ceilings on hospital charges and trade margins; they say absence of a uniform mechanism to regulate hospital charges had left patients vulnerable to hefty bills

Health activists calls for regulation of private hospital charges, margins

Activists urge urgent government regulation of private hospital charges and margins on medicines, revealing high per-bed costs and exorbitant mark-ups.

JSA, working group seek cap on hospital charges, medicine margins

Health groups urged urgent regulation of private hospitals as the Supreme Court flags 10x drug markups and massive per-bed corporate profits