Narendra Modi led NDA Government’s ambitious health insurance scheme, Ayushman Bharat, Pradhan Mantri Jan AarogyaYojana (AB-PMJAY) on Monday Dec 31,2018 completed 100 days after its launch on 23 September 2018.
In this period of time, under AB-PMJAY, the ministry of health and family welfare issued at least 41,45,727 e-cards to the beneficiaries. As on 1 January 2019, over 6,95,310 patients were admitted in various empaneled private and public hospitals across India.
“We are pleased with the initial momentum of PMJAY. We are now focusing on deepening the scheme in “greenfield” states, ensuring that no fraud or abuse takes place, assuring the quality of services and keeping our Information Technology (IT) system safe and robust,” said Indu Bhushan, CEO, AB-PMJAY.
“Greenfield States are those, where there was no health insurance scheme earlier such as Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar, Haryana, (Madhya Pradesh (MP), Himachal Pradesh (HP), Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand,” he said.
The government has already approved a claim amount of Rs 537 crore in last 100 days. Currently, 15,972 hospitals have been empaneled under the scheme and at least 59,219 hospitals have applied for empanelment under the scheme.
Dubbed as “Modicare”, AB-PMJAY provides an annual health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family to about 500 million economically deprived people based on the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) data. It is being touted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the world’s largest healthcare programme.
As many as 31 states and Union Territories (UTs) have signed the MoUs with the Centre to implement the programme. The remaining states and UTs, including Telangana, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala and Punjab, have opted out of the scheme. Delhi however has not adopted the scheme, but nine private hospitals have signed an Memorandum of understanding to provide their services under the AB-PMJAY in December 2018.
In this period of time, under AB-PMJAY, the ministry of health and family welfare issued at least 41,45,727 e-cards to the beneficiaries. As on 1 January 2019, over 6,95,310 patients were admitted in various empaneled private and public hospitals across India.
“We are pleased with the initial momentum of PMJAY. We are now focusing on deepening the scheme in “greenfield” states, ensuring that no fraud or abuse takes place, assuring the quality of services and keeping our Information Technology (IT) system safe and robust,” said Indu Bhushan, CEO, AB-PMJAY.
“Greenfield States are those, where there was no health insurance scheme earlier such as Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar, Haryana, (Madhya Pradesh (MP), Himachal Pradesh (HP), Jammu & Kashmir and Jharkhand,” he said.
The government has already approved a claim amount of Rs 537 crore in last 100 days. Currently, 15,972 hospitals have been empaneled under the scheme and at least 59,219 hospitals have applied for empanelment under the scheme.
Dubbed as “Modicare”, AB-PMJAY provides an annual health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family to about 500 million economically deprived people based on the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) data. It is being touted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the world’s largest healthcare programme.
As many as 31 states and Union Territories (UTs) have signed the MoUs with the Centre to implement the programme. The remaining states and UTs, including Telangana, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala and Punjab, have opted out of the scheme. Delhi however has not adopted the scheme, but nine private hospitals have signed an Memorandum of understanding to provide their services under the AB-PMJAY in December 2018.
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