Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has taken stringent actions against South Point Hospital, Cuttack for allegedly irregularities in BSKY scheme.
Informing about it, Health and Family Welfare Department Secretary Shalini Pandit said that the actions taken would come to immediate effect from today.
In the first phase, the hospital has been de-empanelled. Swasthya Mitra deployed to the said hospital has been disengaged, she said.
The District Administration has been asked to shift the patient undergoing treatment under BSKY in the said hospital to appropriate BSKY empanelled private hospital or to Government facilities for further continuance of uninterrupted treatment, the Health Secretary said.
She added that the State team have been instructed to further investigate into the claims raised by the said hospital earlier vis-a-vis claims scrutinized by Claim Panel Doctors of State Health Assurance Society.
Intensive patient feedback is being collected through outbound calls to past patients at South Point Hospital in order to check past fraud.