<p>“The issue of cashless treatment facilities will besolved soon. Both the sides are working on resolving their differences,” IRDA Chairman J Hari Narayan said while attending a Health Insurance Summit organised by the CII here. “The problem over restoration of the cashless treatment facilities is with certain group of hospitals. I hope this will soon be resolved through talks,” he said.<br /><br />Narayan said over 400 hospitals were now providing cashless treatment as compared to nearly 300 prior to the dispute. <br /><br />The four insurance companies—New India Assurance, United India Insurance, National Insurance and Oriental Insurance — had taken off from July 1 nearly 150 hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai from the list that offer cashless hospitalisation services to policy holders under the mediclaim scheme.<br /><br />The PSU insurance had stopped the cashless service because of alleged over-billing by some private hospitals, which impacted their insurance business.<br /><br />However, top executives of some of the high-end private hospitals attending the summit indicated that deadlock over the restoration of cashless treatment facilities still continued. “The differences continue. Efforts are still on to arrive at a consensus,” Analjit Singh, Chairman of Max India Limited said.</p>
<p>“The issue of cashless treatment facilities will besolved soon. Both the sides are working on resolving their differences,” IRDA Chairman J Hari Narayan said while attending a Health Insurance Summit organised by the CII here. “The problem over restoration of the cashless treatment facilities is with certain group of hospitals. I hope this will soon be resolved through talks,” he said.<br /><br />Narayan said over 400 hospitals were now providing cashless treatment as compared to nearly 300 prior to the dispute. <br /><br />The four insurance companies—New India Assurance, United India Insurance, National Insurance and Oriental Insurance — had taken off from July 1 nearly 150 hospitals in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai from the list that offer cashless hospitalisation services to policy holders under the mediclaim scheme.<br /><br />The PSU insurance had stopped the cashless service because of alleged over-billing by some private hospitals, which impacted their insurance business.<br /><br />However, top executives of some of the high-end private hospitals attending the summit indicated that deadlock over the restoration of cashless treatment facilities still continued. “The differences continue. Efforts are still on to arrive at a consensus,” Analjit Singh, Chairman of Max India Limited said.</p>
