PCMC’s flying squads to check private hospitals inflated treatment bills
After facing shortage of beds, remdesivir injections, ventilator beds and ICU beds, patients are fighting another important battle against the inflated hospital bills presented to Covid19 patients.
Several patients getting treated for Covid19 are now being financially harassed by several hospitals by giving them inflated bills. To resolve these issues, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has set up eight flying squads which will keep a tab on the bills issued by these hospitals to the patients.
Chief Accountant Amod Kumbhojkar has been appointed as the chief controller, Kishor Shinge who will work as accounts officer and Padmakar Kanitkar, Deepak Patil and Sanjay Kashid who will work in this squad. Each ward office will have a team consisting of a health officer, accounts officer, clerk and junior engineer who will closely monitor the billing at several hospitals.
The squad has been working from April 19, 2021 and shall work on following details :
1. Pre Audit of bills issued by private hospitals in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation whether treatment is done as per the rates decided by the government
2. The first draft bill raised by the hospital shall be verified and scrutinised by the Audit team and only after this the final bill shall be passed on to the patient.
3. Auditing of all the transactions made by the hospital shall be scrutinised
4. Prompt solution to any miscalculation in the bill should be made ‘
5. All the newly formed Covid centers should also follow the same protocol
