Over 65M beneficiaries availed ABPMJAY benefits worth Rs 82,000 crore

Over 65 million beneficiaries across the country have so far availed of free hospitalisation benefits worth about Rs 82,000 crore since the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) was rolled out in September 2018.

PMJAY offers Rs 5,00,000-a-year free health cover to 107 million poor households in the country, roughly covering the bottom 40% population of the country.

The Centre launched the scheme on September 23, 2018, to alleviate the suffering of people due to the rising cost of healthcare. According to an estimate, about 62% of healthcare costs were borne out of pocket pushing millions of Indians into poverty every year.

Under PM-JAY, close to 2,000 procedures are available for beneficiaries to get cashless treatment which includes all the costs related to treatment, medicines, supplies, diagnostic services, physician’s fees, room charges, surgeon charges, OT & ICU charges, etc.

The top speciality care treatments availed by beneficiaries to date are general medicine, infectious diseases, general surgery, medical oncology, ophthalmology and orthopaedics.

Among the procedures availed by the people, are haemodialysis, screening for Covid-19, multiple packages and acute febrile illness. Financial Express