Impact of India's publicly financed health insurance scheme on public sector district hospitals: a health financing perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Districts hospitals in India play a pivotal role in delivering health care services in the public sector and are empanelled under India's national health insurance scheme i.e. Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PMJAY). In this paper, we evaluate the extent to which the PMJAY impacts the district hospitals from a financing perspective.

Methods

We used cost data from India's nationally representative costing study-'Costing of Health Services in India' (CHSI) to determine the incremental cost of treating PMJAY patients, after adjusting for resources that are paid through supply-side government financing route. Second, we used data on number and claim value paid to public district and sub-district hospitals during 2019, to determine the addition

SUBMITTER: Prinja S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10305929 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature