The beneficiary card for Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) can now be used to avail advantages for any current state medical insurance schemes, together with the National Health Authority (NHA) brand Allows co-branding and title of each the schemes within the new card
At least 31 states and union territories have already agreed to the scheme, awaiting closing consent from Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Delhi, West Bengal and Odisha have stayed away from this scheme.
“The same card can be used by the beneficiaries under Ayushman Bharat and state scheme. If a state wants to give benefit of more than Rs 5 lakh, then as per the existing scheme partial funding up to Rs 5 lakh will be provided by the center. If states have additional beneficiaries (other than those identified under the Socio-Economic and Caste Census of 2011), they will also be able to use the same card,” stated a well being ministry official.
The co-branded card PM-JAY commercial will allot area to each the state particular logos. At the underside of the cardboard, the title of the scheme can be talked about as “Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana – Mukhyamantri Yojana (or State Scheme Name)”.
The co-branding idea was launched because the scheme is operating parallel to about 20 state schemes in India. NHA will present full monetary help for issuance of such co-branded playing cards not solely to the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) beneficiaries recognized beneath the scheme by the Center but additionally to state-specific non-SECC beneficiaries.
AB PM-JAY scheme gives 5 lakh rupees annual healthcare to greater than 10 crore households throughout the nation. So far Ayushman playing cards have been issued to greater than 14 crore individuals. And, in accordance with the Union Health Ministry knowledge, an quantity of Rs 45,000 crore has been licensed for 3.75 crore hospitalizations beneath this scheme.
NHA goals to attain saturation of Ayushman playing cards, with the SECC database being enriched utilizing the federal government’s LPG connection Ujjwala scheme and verified knowledge from the National Food Security Database.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
