Free hospital care provided to 7.4 crore patients under PMJAY scheme

The top specialty care treatments availed by beneficiaries to date are general medicine, infectious diseases, general surgery, medical oncology, ophthalmology and orthopaedics, according to the Health Ministry.

Approximately 7.37 crore hospital admissions worth Rs. one lakh crore have been authorised under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) as of June 30, as per data compiled by the Ministry of Health. The scheme has been implemented in 33 states/UTs.

The leading states in which Ayushman cards have been created under the PMJAY scheme, include Madhya Pradesh with 402.5 lakh cards, Maharashtra (280 lakh), Karnataka (171.5 lakh) Jammu and Kashmir (85.9 lakh), Telangana State (82.5 lakh), Tamil Nadu (73.6 lakh) and Meghalaya (19.76 lakh). The beneficiaries eligible under the scheme can create their Ayushman card at any time of the year. Eligible beneficiaries can either create the card themselves using Ayushman App or visit the nearest CSC or empanelled hospital to create their Ayushman card.

AB-PMJAY aims to provide health cover of Rs. five lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to approximately 55 crore beneficiaries corresponding to 12.34 crore families constituting the bottom 40 per cent of the population.

People can avail of cashless and paperless healthcare services related to hospitalisation across more than 29,000 empanelled hospitals in the country. The cashless treatment covers all the costs related to treatment, medicines, supplies, diagnostic services, physician’s fees, room charges, surgeon charges, and OT and ICU charges.

The top specialty care treatments availed by beneficiaries to date are general medicine, infectious diseases, general surgery, medical oncology, ophthalmology and orthopaedics, according to the Health Ministry.

In the latest national master of the Health Benefit Package (HBP), the scheme provides cashless healthcare services related to 1,949 procedures across 27 medical specialties including general medicine, surgery, cardiology and oncology. Among the procedures availed by the people are hemodialysis, screening for Covid-19, multiple packages and acute febrile illness.