Apart from that, there was an additional surcharge of 20% taking it to Rs 1.31 lakh," Adnan said. "Costs of several tests and the fees of the doctors were already inflated in the bill, with an additional 20% surcharge that they wanted," he alleged. Earlier this week, a Worli couple, Jayashree and Paresh Choudhary slapped a notice to Bombay Hospital for charging them 20% surcharge during discharge, calling it illegal. "There is no law which allows the hospital to charge this 20% extra surcharge in the name of upkeep of the hospital. Meanwhile the Association of Hospitals (AOH), the umbrella organisation with several trust hospitals under it, refused to comment on individual cases.

Source: dna September 11, 2016 00:32 UTC