Inflated hospital bills for IT people

Today I came across this article on moneycontrol site. After reading this it came to my mind as what is said int he article is very true. Other than what is said in the article hospitals and doctors tend to charge more for people with specific profession or designation.

I had this first hand experience as I was ill last year in this month. And I was under treatment at one of the hospital which was near my house. First the doctor treated me for normal cold then for pneumonia. Then after wards I started to get asphyxiate attacks in the night. The doctor told me to get admitted in the hospital. Once I was admitted they kept on changing the medicine regularly and the medicines where costly. Then after 7 days they released me from the hospital. When I looked up the bill it was around Rs.40000/- Also afterwards I had to regularly visit the hospital as I was not fully cured and saw that the doctor was charging me 100/- bucks for each visit where as he was charging less for other people. As I was not getting better there I went to a medical college and there I got a treatement and there they diagnosed the symptoms properly and started the treatment. And here after the treatment for 6 months the total cost of the treatment was around Rs.5000/-

I am now well and healthy. The doctors in the medical college told me that the doctor had simply done all the expensive test because I was a software engineer.