Health Scheme

Providing cheap, quality medical facilities states' priority: Rajasthan CM

Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on Tuesday said providing cheap, accessible and quality medical facilities to the people of the state is the priority of the state government. He instructed officials to ensure all the budgetary announcements related to the health sector should be completed at a fast pace with an effective action plan to realise the 'Apno Swasth Rajasthan' concept. Sharma was chairing a review meeting of the Medical and Health Department in the Chief Minister's Office on Tuesday. Medical and Health Minister Gajendra Singh Khinvsar was also present in the meeting. He informed the chief minister that the process of recruitment on about 48,000 posts by the Medical and Health Department is going on at mission mode and so far appointment have been made on about 8000 posts. Chief Minister Sharma said that to provide quality health services in small cities and towns, the state government has decided to build Ayushman Model CHCs across the state. The chief minister said th

Odisha 'to join' Ayushman Bharat: All about health insurance scheme

It offers comprehensive coverage that includes 1,949 medical procedures across 27 medical specialties

Rs 364 crore pending for hospitals under Ayushman Bharat: Punjab minister

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh on Thursday refuted claims by the private hospitals that the state government owed over Rs 600 crore for various treatments availed under the Ayushman Bharat Mukh Mantri Sehat Bima Yojna. He said the total pending amount for both public and private hospitals is Rs 364 crore. Singh said the breakup of pending payments shows that Rs 166.67 crore are owed to the public hospitals and Rs 197 crore to the private hospitals. The minister's reaction came a day after the private hospitals and nursing association (PHANA) claimed that the state government owed over Rs 600 crore and had also threatened to stop providing medical treatments under the Ayushman Bharat Mukh Mantri Sehat Bima Yojana. Notably, the Ayushman Bharat Mukh Mantri Sehat Bima Yojana offers cashless treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year in as many as 772 government and private empaneled hospitals across the state. The minister said since April 1, 2024, the government has disbursed

Health schemes face hurdle in Punjab as pvt centres stop cashless treatment

The hospital body PHANA claimed that it took the step due to unresolved payments of approximately Rs 600 crore owed by the state government, pending for the last six months

Govt mandates linking of CGHS and ABHA IDs to integrate health schemes

The CGHS scheme provides comprehensive healthcare services to central government employees, pensioners, and their dependent family members

Health sector's Budget wishlist: Increase spending to 2.5% of GDP

Key demands include rationalising GST rates, investment in skilling professionals, building local capabilities

Regional disparities rise as Ayushman cards near quarter-billion mark

The year 2022-23 saw surge in cards created under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri-Jan Arogya Yojana scheme

Kerala govt allocates extra Rs 200 cr for its integrated healthcare scheme

The Kerala government has granted an additional Rs 200 crore for Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhathi (KASAP), its integrated health protection scheme that is estimated to have benefited 64 lakh people in the southern state. With this additional allocation, the total amount granted for the flagship scheme in the present financial year has gone up to Rs 800 crore, state Finance Minister K N Balagopal said in a statement. He said KASAP is a comprehensive scheme which ensures the healthcare of 42 lakh families in Kerala and the State Health Agency under the Health Department, is implementing the programme. "The scheme has been launched by the state government with an objective of avoiding a situation where sudden heavy medical expenses push ordinary families into financial ruin," the minister said. Giving details of the healthcare scheme, he said an average of 180 patients per hour (3 patients per 1 minute) benefit from it. At present, 1,667 treatment packages are included as part of th

Rajasthan takes pole position for health insurance coverage: NFHS report

The National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) states 88 per cent of the households have at least one member covered by a health scheme or health insurance in Rajasthan

Irdai to bring in standard vector-borne disease cover of up to Rs 2 lakh

Policyholders can choose protection against any one or more ailments such as dengue, malaria, filaria, etc; price for every covered disease to be set separately

World Sight Day 2019: Andhra to launch 'YSR Kanti Velugu' health scheme

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will formally launch the scheme in Anantapuramu

Govt trims health scheme cost estimates by 25% post Niti Aayog's criticism

New estimate stands at $25 bn for a three-year extension of the Centre's flagship programme

New health plan may miss April 1 deadline

The government could miss the earlier target of launching the new National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) from April 1, meant ti give insurance cover up to Rs 1 Lakh for below poverty line (BPL) families.A senior health ministry official said, "We are in the process of inter-ministerial consultations. We might not be able to roll out the scheme from April 1 as planned earlier." The government had planned to end the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) once the new one got going. In the former, all BPL families were to health insurance up to Rs 30,000. The new scheme was to be implemented by states. "We haven't yet figured what share of burden the states will bear," said the official quoted earlier. Once finalised, the government will begin the process of empanelling insurance companies that will disburse the amount. Earlier, the government had mentioned that the amount would be directly sent to the hospitals, not to individual beneficiaries.The scheme is supposed to benefit 400 ...