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Over 1,500 private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat in last one year — Mandaviya

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By PTI Updated: Dec 16, 2022 8:39 pm
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*EDS: VIDEO GRAB VIA SANSAD TV** New Delhi: Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya speaks in the Lok Sabha during Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (PTI Photo) (PTI12_16_2022_000058B)

New Delhi, Dec. 16 (PTI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said more than 1,500 private hospitals have been empanelled under the Ayushman Bharat scheme in the last one year.

The scheme is reviewed every month and out-of-pocket expenditure of patients under the scheme has come down, Mandaviya said, replying to a question in Lok Sabha.

Under the scheme launched in 2018, the government provides health security cover to 10 crore families or 50 crore people of India.

Today, 4.5 crore needy people have been empanelled under the scheme, the minister said.

He said seven-eight lakh beneficiary cards are printed daily and the ministry was working to ensure that 50 crore cards are made available in the next four-six months.

“Poor and needy people are covered under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and they can avail Rs 5 lakh health security cover. Any hospital can empanel under the scheme … In the last one year, more than 1,500 private hospitals have been empanelled under the scheme,” Mandaviya said during the Question Hour.

The minister said 22,000 hospitals, both public and private, have been empanelled under the scheme so far.

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By PTI Updated: Dec 16, 2022 8:39:39 pm
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