TW Newsdesk, March 14:The state government has reportedly appointed the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission as the arbitrator in cases where private hospitals feel they were rejected their rightful due under the West Bengal Health Scheme by the state finance department.

Patients covered by the health scheme are eligible for cashless treatment of up to Rs 1.5 lakh in private hospitals. The hospitals later send those claims for reimbursement to the state finance department.Fortis Hospital told the commission during a hearing that it was not given around Rs 28,000 that it had claimed as reimbursement under the health scheme. Retired judge Ashim Banerjee, chairperson of the commission, stated that Fortis had claimed Rs 1.5 lakh as reimbursement but was paid about Rs 1.22 lakh.