Recently I came across a blog titled - Loot by corporate hospital written by a fellow collegue. He went an angioplasty and stent costing 40000 was billed as 1 lac .That sent me thinking. Many of us are well versed with the corporate world now. Many of you will be working in corporate hospitals. We or our relatives may need them in an emergency - because of neigbhourhood or paucity of specialists and advanced life saving equipments in govt hospitals.
Even though all of our colleagues barring few are always sympathetic to fellow colleagues as far as medical care is concerned. But when it comes to billing even they are helpless. So many laws and consumer protection acts have failed to deter these hospitals. What is being done now - is even the medicines stocked in these hospitals are being overpriced and MRP written on these medicines is many fold.They do not allow the patients to bring…
