<span style="color: #222222;">The Government has revised the rates of the consultation fee and ICU charges for availing treatment at empanelled private hospitals for Central Government Health Scheme, CGHS beneficiaries. Under it, now the OPD charges have been revised from the existing 150 rupees to 350 rupees. While the IPD consultation fee has been increased from 300 rupees to 350 rupees. The ICU charges have been fixed at five thousand four hundred rupees.<br />''<br />''The Union Health Ministry said, the decision will benefit 42 lahks CGHS beneficiaries. It will put an additional burden of 240 crore rupees to 300 crore rupees on the Government. The Ministry said, there was no change in the rates of these facilities, since 2014.</span><br />