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Kerala’s healthcare gold rush: How private equity is reshaping hospitals and raising fears over costsPrivate equity funds are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Kerala’s healthcare sector, reshaping a system long dominated by inde...
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IHH Healthcare aims to hike its stake in Fortis to 50%: CEO Prem Kumar NairIHH Healthcare sees India as a major growth market. The company plans to increase its stake in Fortis Healthcare. IHH aims to expand its ho...
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Budget Session: Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 to be introduced in Lok SabhaThe Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025, set to be introduced in Lok Sabha, aims to modernize India's immigration laws. Union Home Ministe...
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4 NCR hospitals jacked up prices of branded drugs 12 fold: NPPAThe hospitals have been the “major beneficiaries” of profit in all these cases because they inflated the maximum retail prices of the produ...
21 Feb, 2018, 07.56 AM IST
Hospitals prescribe drugs excluded from price control to boost profit: NPPAFour hospitals in the NCR marked up the retail prices of such medicines as much as 12-fold from the rates at which they were purchased, NPP...
20 Feb, 2018, 10.56 PM IST
Fortis Gurgaon marked up medicines, consumables billed to dengue patient as much as 1,700%For medicines under price control, the mark-ups that Fortis took were anywhere between 5% & 350%. For price control category, family was ov...
16 Dec, 2017, 01.21 PM IST
Fortis case: Have written to HUDA to cancel lease, says VijFollowing the indictment by the panel, Vij had said that an FIR will be lodged against the private hospital while the license of its blood ...
09 Dec, 2017, 07.36 PM IST
Haryana government to file FIR against Fortis for negligence in dengue caseThe government also plans to suspend Fortis' blood bank licence and is writing to a permanent committee in the Haryana Urban Development Au...
07 Dec, 2017, 01.40 AM IST
NPPA to investigate allegations of overcharging against FortisFortis had charged the family of seven-year-old dengue patient Adya Singh nearly Rs 16 lakh during her stay at the hospital between August ...
25 Nov, 2017, 11.34 AM IST
Warn hospitals against malpractices: Health ministry to statesThe move comes in the wake of allegations that Gurgaon- based Fortis Hospital billed the family of a dengue patient Rs 16 lakh.
23 Nov, 2017, 11.22 PM IST
Fortis case: Family should move consumer court, says Union minister Ram Vilas PaswanThe case relates to the death in September of a 7-year- old girl who was admitted with dengue to the Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FM...
22 Nov, 2017, 07.37 PM IST
Fortis dengue case: Government to probe negligence, overcharging claimsThe hospital yesterday claimed that an itemised bill "spread over 20 pages was explained and handed over to the family" at the time of thei...
22 Nov, 2017, 10.02 AM IST
No medical negligence; family apprised of bill: FortisIt said in a statement that there was no medical negligence and all standard protocols were followed in the treatment of the patient at the...
21 Nov, 2017, 09.59 PM IST
Hospital under government scanner for charging nearly Rs 16 lakh for dengue patient's treatmentFortis has denied the allegations against it, claiming it followed proper protocols and kept the family apprised of the progress in treatme...
21 Nov, 2017, 11.01 AM IST
Reusing single-use devices: FDA warns Fortis hospitalsFortis had received the notices and was "evaluating the observations" and would respond appropriately, its spokesperson told PTI.
27 Apr, 2017, 11.55 PM IST