Panel pitches cross-subsidy: Corporate hospitals urged to use rich-patient revenue to fund poorer patientsâ care

NEW DELHI: Revenue earned from foreign patients and affluent Indians should help fund the treatment of poorer patients, the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare has recommended, proposing that corporate hospitals adopt a cross-subsidisation model to make advanced healthcare more affordable.

Health panel seeks subsidised treatment for poor using revenue from affluent patients

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