IMA leaders Please Act or Resign (API, FOGSI, ISG, CSI, .....) Medical Consultancy and Other Services (Rationalisation of Fees) Act, 2013. (Bill introduced in Rajya Sabha on 8-08-2014) Introduced by Renuka Choudhary Excerpts: 5. The Committee shall discharge the following functions: (i) Fixation of the consultancy fees to be charged by the medical practitioners from patients either in their private clinics or in a private hospital/corporate hospital after taking into consideration such factors as may be necessary. (ii) Fixation of the rate for the pathological tests and scanning taking into the consideration the inputs used in carrying out the tests. (iii) Promotion of the free consultancy for the local community by making it mandatory for the private practitioners to organize free medical camps on a regular basis. 6. (1) No Medical practitioner shall charge from any patient the fee exceeding the fee fixed by the Committee; (2) It shall be mandatory for all the medical practitioner and diagnostic laboratory to display the fees as decided by the Committee in such manner as may be prescribed. 7. (1) Whoever contravenes the provisions of this Act shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not less than a year and with fine which may extend up to five lakh rupees. (2) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company/hospital/ laboratory, the license of such company/hospital/laboratory shall be cancelled forthwith. ExplanationThe medical practitioners are charging exorbitant consultancy fees from patients ranging from Rs. 500 to Rs. 2000 per visit. The pathological tests and scanning, etc. in the private hospitals are exceedingly expensive and becoming out of reach for the common people. The Government is committed to provide health services free of cost to its citizens regardless of their economic status. However, considering the enormity of our population and the unmatched health facilities, it is imperative that the private practitioners either in their private clinics or in the private/corporate hospitals should provide the medical consultancy at a reasonable price which can be afforded by a common man, particularly when the majority of private hospitals are running on the leased Government land and the private clinics do not pay commercial charges for their premises from where they run their clinics. The consultancy fee of private medical practitioners is arbitrarily high. As a result, the government hospitals are overcrowded with patients. In this background, it is felt that the consultancy by the private medical practitioners and other medical services all over the country needs to be rationalized. It is therefore, proposed to constitute a Committee to fix the consultancy fees and pathological and other test charges, promote the free medical campus and rationalizes the fees for medical services for the poor. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives. Hence, this Bill. MLAG will oppose this draconian Act. Please support us. Dr Neeraj Nagpal Convenor Medicos Legal Action Group Ex President IMA Chandigarh 09316517176 e mail; hopeclinics@yahoo, hopelinics@gmail For Contributions; Medicos Legal Action Group Ac No 499601010036479 IFSC code UBIN0549967 Union Bank Sector 35 C Chandigarh; Is this true?
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:18:18 +0000
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