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Room-Tariff Caps Won't Fix India's Hospital Bills - Only DRG Payment Will

The recommendations arrive as India grapples with a structural contradiction - wanting more private and foreign capital in healthcare while simultaneously tightening scrutiny of how that capital behaves once invested. Physician and author Chandrakant Lahariya's column argues that isolated price caps, like the room-tariff proposal, address only one visible line item while leaving the underlying incentive structure that drives…