Telangana Hospitals Halt Free Healthcare Services Over Non-payment Dues

Around 240 private hospitals in Telangana have decided to halt their services under the state's free health benefit project, Aarogyasri, over pending dues.

Healthcare services under Telangana's Arogyasri scheme came to a halt as nearly 240 private hospitals in the state ceased providing services over non-payment of dues worth Rs 1,500 crore by the state government.

Talks between Health Minister Etela Rajender and Telangana Network Hospitals Association (TNHA) failed to find a solution.

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‘Hospitals in Telangana discontinue Arogyasree services as state government fails to clear pending bills worth Rs. 1,500 crore. ’

The minister said after the talks with representatives of TNHA that the dues amount to only Rs 600 crore and that the government will immediately release Rs 200 crore.

He said the decision on the demand to increase the charges for various services would be taken after consultation with Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao.

TNHA, however, maintained that the government has to pay dues to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore.

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The hospitals stopped the services under Arogyasri, Employees' Health Scheme (EHS), and Journalists' Health Scheme (JHS).

TNHA made it clear that they will not resume the services until a clear assurance overpayment of all dues.

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Over 80 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) families are provided free healthcare facilities in private hospitals under Arogyasri, which was launched by the then Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy government in undivided Andhra Pradesh in 2007.

The network hospitals stopped the services on many occasions in the last four years over non-payment of dues.

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They have also been demanding revision of the rates for various packages under the scheme.

Source-IANS