The AHPI, on Monday, launched a list of medical facilities, where it stated that cashless insurance coverage had actually been suspended.|Picture Credit: iStockphoto
Physicians owning scientific facilities have actually signed up with members of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India(AHPI )in raising the concern of cashless medical insurance for clients, at any health center they pick to go to.
Health centers consisting of big tertiary care health center chains are dealing with distressed clients who are not supported by the cashless insurance coverage center by ‘Star Health Insurance’, the AHPI declared, this time calling a few of these healthcare facilities.
Dr Abul Hasan, Chairman, Indian Medical Association Hospital Board informed businesslinethey are looking for typical empanelment for all scientific facilities, “as clients must deserve to go to their favored healthcare facility.” Rates has actually been an enduring concern, he stated, looking for treatment rates that factor-in medical inflation and are not benchmarked versus rates under federal government health care plans.
With 97,000 personal medical facilities looking after about 75 percent of the nation’s health care requirements, he stated, the physicians came together with AHPI to deal with the cashless insurance coverage concern in one voice. IMAHB ia a wing of IMA, making up physicians who owned scientific facilities, he stated.
Healthcare facilities called
On Monday, the AHPI called medical facilities where, it stated, cashless insurance coverage had actually been suspended– consisting of Care Hospitals (Ramnagar, Vizag), Manipal Hospital (Delhi and Gurugram), Max Hospitals (North India), Metro Hospital (Faridabad), Medanta Hospital (Lucknow), Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital (New Delhi), Sarvodaya Hospital (Faridabad) and Yatharth Hospitals.
Even more, it declared, “empanelment of numerous popular healthcare facilities has actually likewise been rejected by Star Health.” These consisted of Care Health city (Vizag), Care Hospital (Malakpet, Hyderabad), Fortis Hospital, (Manesar), Jupiter Hospital (Indore), Max Hospital (Dwarka), Medanta Hospital (Noida) and so on.
A Star Health representative informed businessline that they have actually not had any interaction from IMA. Late recently, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company stated it had actually not gotten any case of cashless suspension from its network partners with whom it has bilateral arrangements. They called AHPI risks of suspending cashless services as “approximate, doing not have clearness or actionable information.”
A number of conferences are, nevertheless, lined up over the next couple of days consisting of one perhaps with the insurance coverage regulator, a health care sector source stated.
Disturbance over partnership
The AHPI and IMAHB had actually fulfilled on Sunday, even as the General Insurance Council (GIC) came out in assistance of Star Health Insurance, calling the AHPI’s relocation threatening to suspend Star’s cashless insurance coverage as “unilateral and baseless action”. AHPI had actually stated that Star’s cashless service would be suspended from September 22, if it did not renew medical facilities it had actually dropped from its network.
The Council had actually stated over the weekend, it had actually arranged a conference with AHPI on September 2, to solve issues– however that stands rescheduled forever, and AHPI continues with “unilateral action, signalling a choice for disturbance over cooperation to enhance customer support and secure client interests.”
Dr Girdhar Gyani Director General AHPI and IMAHB’s Dr Hasan, on the other hand stated on Monday, “Patients purchase medical insurance with the clear expectation of getting cashless treatment at quality medical facilities. It is unjustified for insurance providers to keep this center after gathering premiums, leaving households to rush for funds at the time of hospitalisation.”
Released on September 15, 2025
