The Centre defends Rule 9(ii) of the Clinical Establishments Rules before the Supreme Court while conceding the rate range has not yet been finalised.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that a rule requiring private hospitals to charge within a government-determined range of rates for medical procedures is constitutionally valid, according to Bar & Bench.
The Centre conceded that the range itself has not yet been finalised due to a lack of consensus among states, Bar & Bench reported.
LiveLaw reported that the Centre defended the validity of Rule 9(ii) of the Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Rules, 2012. It said prescribing the range of rates would standardise charges across clinical establishments.
According to LiveLaw, the Centre contended that this would prevent inconsistent and exorbitant pricing, price gouging, excessive charging and arbitrary inflation. LiveLaw tagged the matter All India Ophthalmological Society v. Union of India. The remainder of its report is behind a subscription wall.
