Hyderabad: As the Covid-19 pandemic is increasingly on the rage at an alarming speed ever since the lockdown was relaxed, the Telangana government has issued a government order (GO) to fix a ceiling on the rates chargeable by private hospitals and private laboratories in the course of testing for COVID-19 and treatment of positive patients.
According to officials, the applicable rates per day for the treatment packages provided by the facility such as regular beds, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) without ventilation and ICU with ventilation. The items that are included as well as excluded in the package are explicitly line listed in the said G.O.
Rates are not applicable to the patients subscribing insurance schemes, as well as patients being treated under various agreements/MOUs, entered into the hospitals and different sponsored groups or corporate entities, the officials said.
