Health Care Services under GST

• August 22, 2019
• CA Chandan Agarwal's Office

‘Health care services’ means the providing medicine, medical or surgical treatment, nursing, hospital , dental service, complementary health services , ambulance services for patient transportation or for any other services relating to sickness or personal injury and providing services for the purposes of preventing, alleviating, curing or healing human illness, physical disability or injury. As per Oxford Dictionary, Health Care means the maintenance and improvement of physical and mental Health, especially through the provision of medical services.

In the pre-GST regime, the health care services were not under the scope of levy of Service Tax. In the GST regime the Government instead of giving full exemption to health care services but minimizes the burden of tax by exempting certain health care services as a welfare measures for the citizen of the country.