The Maharashtra government announced on Saturday that it would create a new law to ban doctors from taking kickbacks from other doctors and hospitals to refer patients for advanced - and expensive - medical tests. Known as ‘cut practice’ in the medical community, it was the target of a recent billboard campaign by the Asian Heart Institute, Bandra-Kurla Complex. A number of eminent doctors, and administrators of the Maharashtra Medical Council and Indian Medical Association are on the committee. The act will make referring patients without any specific medical needs to doctors and hospitals a cognisable offence. He wrote that ‘cut practice’ was prevalent and that it had become difficult for doctors and hospitals to pursue the profession honestly.

Source: Hindustan Times July 01, 2017 18:56 UTC