Chennai: In an effort to serve with transparency, ethics and compassion, despite the strain that the healthcare sector is under, FICCI Covid-19 Response Task Force under the FICCI Health Services Committee, in a series of meetings, have worked on creating a rational costing framework which will allay any fears of the patients and the community about Covid treatment.
FICCI Covid-19 Response Taskforce, with representatives from leading private hospitals in India, have brainstormed and developed an accounting methodology to help bring in a standardisation of cost of Covid treatment in the national interest.
This has been categorised according to government referred patients, patients paying from out of pocket and for patients who are covered by TPAs and further been sub-categorised to three levels depending on the severity of the case.
Dr Alok Roy, chair- FICCI Health Services Committee, said that there is an imperative need to acknowledge that Covid treatment costs is difficult to rationalise essentially due to the unknown nature of treatment required and various comorbidities associated with it.
Additionally, segregating the Covid and non-Covid patients is essential which needs huge investments in infrastructure.