State Health department on Friday slashed the package rates of private hospitals for management of COVID-19. Principal Secretary, Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Department, issued a letter saying that after consulting the representatives of private hospitals and experts of medical college, the government has revised the treatment fee package of COVID-19 patients. The order has come into force with immediate effect.
The Principal Secretary has said through the letter that according to the guidelines issued earlier, districts have been divided into three categories and as per NABH Accreditation, hospitals have been divided into two categories which will be uniform across the State.
Category A districts according to list are Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad and Bokaro, while Category B districts include Hazaribag, Palamu, Deoghar, Seraikela, Ramgarh and Giridih. In Category C rest of the districts are included.
Cost of treatment of COVID-19 patients per day of admission in Category–A is divided into three categories -- Moderate Illness (Isolation beds with supportive care and Oxygen supply), Severe Illness (ICU without Ventilators) and Very Severe (ICU with Ventilators care -- invasive and non-invasive).
Further, in Moderate Illness NABH Accredited private hospitals can charge Rs 8000 (including cost of PPE and .other protective equipment), in Severe Illness the same hospitals can charge Rs 10000 (including cost of PPE and .other protective equipment), while in Very Severe cases NABH Accredited private hospitals can charge a maximum of Rs 12000 (including cost of PPE and .other protective equipment).
Also, the Non- NABH Accredited private hospitals can charge a maximum of Rs 7500, 9000 and 11,500 in Moderate, Severe and Very Severe illness respectively.
In Category B districts the charges have been further slashed to Rs 7000, 8500 and 11000 for Moderate, Severe and Very severe cases for NABH accredited hospitals, while for Non- NABH accredited hospitals the maximum charges are Rs 6500, 8000 and 10,500 depending on the severity of the cases.
In Category C districts the maximum charges are Rs 6000, 8000 and 10,500 for NABH accredited hospitals, while for the Non-NABH accredited
hospitals it is Rs 5000, 7500 and 9000 as per the severity of the case.
The Health department has also prescribed medicines and treatment procedure incorporated in the mentioned charges, which include Consultation charges, Nursing charges, housekeeping charges and diet, PPE Kit, Physiotherapy, Medicine and consumables, Biomedical waste management, Injections procedure like IV and IM (Intra Cath), Bed side procedure like – Riles tube, catheter or intubation etc, Diagnostic tests like – Pathology, microbiology, imaging etc and test before the discharge of the patients.
Meanwhile, according to the health department bulleting in Jharkhand today, 768 corona positive patients were confirmed, including 314 from Ranchi, 48 from Bokaro, 5 from Chatra, 7 from Deoghar, 41 from Dhanbad, 3 from Dumka, 103 from East Singhbhum, 26 from Garhwa, Giridih. 10, 37 from Godda, 19 from Gumla, 15 from Hazaribagh, 16 from Jamtara, 35 from Khunti, 4 from Koderma, 6 from Latehar, 12 from Lohardaga, 1 from Pakud, 7 from Palamu, 10 from Ramgarh, 5 from Sahebganj.
With today’s figures the total number of positive cases in State reached 91254, while 8819 active cases are there in the State. Six patients died of COVID-19 in 24 hours, three in Ranchi and one each in East SInghbhum, Dhanbad and Bokaro.