It has also stipulated that private hospitals and healthcare facilities that par- ticipate in the scheme, in addition to the public system that would be the scheme\'s mainstay, would have to accept a set of prescribed rates as the maximum charges for various treatments, the rates being much less than those fixed by the Central government.
Re-envisioning a Central scheme, the Kerala model
by C Gouridasan Nair, The Hindu, 04 October, 2008