"Study on Universal Health Coverage Scheme in India–The Stumper to Priv" by K. Ravi Babu, J. Lakshmi Prasad et al.
 

Study on Universal Health Coverage Scheme in India–The Stumper to Private Hospitals

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Hospital Topics

Abstract

Background: Many governments have introduced health insurance schemes for the poor sections of society to save them from catastrophic health expenditure. Private hospitals play a key role in India, as they are in significant number in secondary and tertiary care services. Private hospitals have to fund their infrastructure, staff salaries from the revenue of previous year. In this study, we compared money received by a private medical college hospital bed through government insurance scheme patient and private paying patient. Methods: Observational study, comparing money reimbursed for top ten procedures treated in private medical college hospitals by Ayushman Bharat (AB) fund and the price offered by a paying patient in similar bed. Results: On average 600 patients received medical care through the AB scheme per month at our tertiary care super-specialty hospital. Highest numbers were seen in specialties like cardiovascular, and cancer treatments and infectious diseases under general medicine specialty. The costs considered were surgeon’s cost, medicines, devices, and hospitalization costs. The laparoscopic procedures were incurring a loss of 130%, knee replacements about 50%, coronary bypass grafting thankfully due to controlling of prices by central government is incurring a loss of 10%. The package amount offered accounts to 26–52% only of the costs incurred by the private hospitals. Conclusion: The private academic hospitals need 25% to 50% more than current prices offered, across various procedures.

First Page

193

Last Page

199

DOI

10.1080/00185868.2024.2359553

Publication Date

1-1-2024

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