{
  "id": 590602,
  "title": "68% report high treatment costs, 56% flag costly ICU, room charges in private hospitals: Survey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/68-report-high-treatment-costs-56-flag-costly-icu-room-charges-in",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-11T17:16:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/india/68-report-high-treatment-costs-56-flag-costly-icu-room-charges-in-private-hospitals-survey-11786465676126.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Around 56% of respondents reported ‘excessively high charges of facilities like ICU and/or room’, while 51% said they were charged ‘excessively high prices of medicines and consumables.’",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}