Case Law Details
In re Baroda Medicare Private Limited (GST AAAR Gujarat)
The issue raised by the appellant in the present case is whether the supply of Occupational Health Check – up service by the hospital i.e. nursing staff, doctors, paramedical staff on hospital’s payroll, working in different corporate for providing health check-up service, ambulance facility, and allied medical services to their employees and also the camps conducted for health check-up outside the hospitals, to be treated as Health Care service and hence not taxable under CGST/SGST.
The appellant has claimed that the aforesaid services proposed to be provided by it are covered under Entry at Sr. No. 74 of Notification No. 12/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 and Notification No. 12/2017-State Tax (Rate) dated 30.06.2017.
It is clear that objective of medical examination is diagnosis. The definition of diagnosis, as per Cambridge dictionary means a judgement about what particular illness or problem is, made after examining and as per freedictionary.com is the act of process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient’s history, examination and review of laboratory data, are broad enough to include occupational health check -ups within the meaning of word diagnosis. Further, occupational health check-ups provide preventive care which falls in the scope of the word ‘care’.
As per Entry at Sr. No. 74 of Notification No. 12/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 and Notification No. 12/2017-State Tax (Rate) dated 30.06.2017 Health Care Services must be supplied by clinical establishment, an authorized medical practitioner or para-medics and these services are not limited to specified or particular conditions, diseases or anatomical reasons as well as these services can be provided in general practitioner’s practices and also delivered by outpatient clinics, at home, in firms, schools etc or by phone, internet or other means.
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