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Doctors are free to field lawyers to represent them before the grievance redressal committees.
Those filing false complaints before the committee will be penalised, health minister K R Ramesh Kumar said.
The government will fix rates only for procedures under government-funded insurance schemes such as Yashaswini and Vajpayee Arogyashree.
Implementation of the state's ambitious Universal Health Coverage scheme, expected to cover nearly 1.40 crore households, is dependent on the passage of the KPME Bill.
"The two are integrated. The private sector will cooperate with us. No one will fish in troubled waters anymore," Siddaramaiah said.
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