Punjab and Haryana HC: Uniform rates for COVID tests

Written By Sharon Mathew

On May 27th, 2021 the High Court of Punjab and Haryana passed directions to the States to ensure that there was uniform pricing in COVID treatment across hospitals. Some of these directions have been reproduced below-

  • The rates for RAT and RT-PCR tests in all the three States need to be uniform. Taking a cue from the rates prescribed by the State of Punjab, we feel that State of Haryana and U.T. Chandigarh need to reconsider the rates prescribed and act accordingly.

  • Admittedly, U.T. Chandigarh has reduced the rates for HRCT (chest) charged by the private diagnostic centres to `1800/- which we find is reasonable. We hope and trust that State of Punjab and State of Haryana shall impress upon private diagnostic centres situated in their respective jurisdictions to reduce the rates for HRCT (chest) on the similar lines.

Sharon Mathew
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