New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- More than six in 10 families who used private hospital services in the last three years reported issues with their bills, with many saying they were charged excessively for treatment, diagnostic tests and hospital facilities, according to a LocalCircles survey.

The survey, which received 23,084 responses from citizens across 306 districts, found that 68% of respondents cited "excessively high prices of treatment" as an issue. Another 63% said they faced "excessively high prices of tests".

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".

Nearly half of those surveyed, or 49%, sai...