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News Flash:  “The General Insurance Public Sector Association consisting of four major state-run insurance companies – United India, New India, Oriental Insurance and National Insurance have decided to stop cash-less hospitalization in most hospitals”
Shock and outrage were the two words that described the reaction of most of the customers and media reports on this [...]

Hospitals overcharging Patients under Cashless Claims is under the media buzz since a few days.
Here is a quick post which reasons why Hospitals overcharge Cashless Claims:
No Contracted Rates with Hospitals:

TPAs do not have contract binding rates (treatment-wise) with Hospitals in their network. Globally, TPAs contract treatment-wise rates with each Hospital in [...]

Preamble
Last 3-4 days, we have been seeing a lot of news in various media about cashless network hospital list being brought down to fewer in numbers & this list does not have big hospitals where the treatment cost is high & hence, have a greater need for their presence in list. We fear [...]

Health insurance companies are trying to salvage the losses which are just increasing each year and here is another of their moves. Public Health insurance Companies (Oriental, New India Assurance, United, National) have announced that they are taking down large number of the hospitals from their list of network hospitals to access Cashless service. [...]