KOLKATA: The Bengal government, which from mid-July started settling Swasthya Sathi claims directly instead of re-routing it through insurance companies, has now decided to cap package rates for cancer, orthopaedic, neurosurgery and pain-management procedures. It has also fixed rates for 129 cancer drugs while weeding out several expensive ones from the treatment protocol under the scheme besides capping hospitalisation rat-es for chemotherapy.
The modifications, recommended by an experts' committee, are to be implemented with immediate effect, says a notification dated July 30.
