Apollo Hospital — Additional Fee to provide MRI film despite charging exorbitant amounts for MRI

Address: Jaynagar, Bangalore

Hospitals are charging exorbitant amounts for MRI investigations, and instead of relying on their own clinical skills, hospital doctors increasingly advise MRI scans as a routine practice. The charges include the cost of reporting as well as imaging.
It is therefore deeply disturbing that reputed hospitals such as Apollo have started demanding an additional ₹500 per MRI merely to provide the MRI film. This practice appears intended to discourage patients from seeking a second medical opinion, as doctors within the same hospital can conveniently review the MRI on the hospital’s internal systems, while patients are denied portable access to their own diagnostic data.
Such an attitude is unethical, exploitative, and condemnable, and must be stopped immediately. It causes unnecessary financial burden and harassment, particularly to poor and middle-class patients, and violates the basic principles of transparency and patient rights.
If immediately I donot get reply, I will approach to health authorities, NHRC, or consumer forums.