The General Insurance Council of India has recently launched the "Cashless Everywhere" scheme, allowing policyholders nationwide access to treatment in any hospital. However, the scheme encountered challenges due to the lack of standardized fees in Indian hospitals. Consequently, a non-government organization filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court (SC) addressing this issue. The NGO requested that the SC regulate hospital treatment charges nationwide based on the Clinical Establishment (Central Government) Rules 2012.
However, the government’s counsel stated that 12 states and seven union territories have adopted the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act 2010. Further, the counsel emphasized that the Union Government cannot set standardized charges per the 2012 Act until it receives responses from all the states and union territories. Finally, the SC…
