biostudies-literatureUnknown17(12)Singh MP<h4>Introduction</h4>Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) has enabled the Government of India to become a strategic purchaser of health care services from private providers. To generate base cost evidence for evidence-based policymaking the Costing of Health Services in India (CHSI) study was commissioned in 2018 for the price setting of health benefit packages. This paper reports the findings of a process evaluation of the cost data collection in the private hospitals.<h4>Methods</h4>The process evaluation of health system costing in private hospitals was an exploratory survey with mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative). We used three approaches-an online survey using a semi-structured questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and a review of monitoring data. The PloS onee0276399https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9744278biostudies-literatureCHSI costing study-Challenges and solutions for cost data collection in private hospitals in India.PMC9744278Brar SNarayanasamy KMadhusudana PSingh MPKumar SGaur KLPankaj JPKaur SPatel PRajsekar KPopli RMadhavi KSingh VPrinja SHazra AVerma RMehrotra DMisra RVelhal GDBahl RSinha SSharma DKBhondve ASChitra ABiswal SBNaik JPanigrahy ASachin OfalseCHSI costing study-Challenges and solutions for cost data collection in private hospitals in India.<h4>Introduction</h4>Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) has enabled the Government of India to become a strategic purchaser of health care services from private providers. To generate base cost evidence for evidence-based policymaking the Costing of Health Services in India (CHSI) study was commissioned in 2018 for the price setting of health benefit packages. This paper reports the findings of a process evaluation of the cost data collection in the private hospitals.<h4>Methods</h4>The process evaluation of health system costing in private hospitals was an exploratory survey with mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative). We used three approaches-an online survey using a semi-structured questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and a review of monitoring data. The 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z20222025-04-18T16:30:46.311Z2025-04-07T03:44:51.572ZS-EPMC97442783650843110.1371/journal.pone.0276399