Harsh Vardhan's 'name & shame' list to curb frauds under AB-PMJAY

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan on September 30, while addressing ‘Arogya Manthan’ organised on first anniversary of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY), said that names of around 100 hospitals involved in malpractices have been put up on official website of Ayushman Bharat. names have been put up under government's initiative of 'name and shame' to create a sort of deterrence amongst hospitals and prevent such involvements in near future. Ayushman Bharat was launched in 2017 under recommendation of National Health Policy 2017, to achieve vision of Universal Health Cover (UHC). Union Health Minister also said that in order to encour hospitals, government was planning to launch a 'name and fame' initiative under scheme to felicitate well-performing hospitals. 

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Names of 111 hospitals involved in fraud put up on AB-PMJAY website

Union Minister, while addressing 'Arogya Manthan', said " government has a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption and malpractices. It is because of this that names of around 111 hospitals which have been de-empanelled have been put up on official website of AB-PMJAY as a part of our 'name and shame' initiative." "We are also planning to implement a new initiative called ‘name and fame’ initiative to felicitate those hospitals which are performing well under AB-PMJAY so that y are encourd and ir best practices can be emulated by ors,” he added. 

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Harsh Vardhan said that nearly 1,200 cases of fraud have been confirmed and stringent action was taken against 338 hospitals. All this was possible due to a strong fraud prevention, detection and control system which has proved to be critical for PMJAY to ensure that se kind of frauds are prevented and quickly detected if attempted, he added.

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He also said that FIRs were lodged against six hospitals under AB-PMJAY and penalties amounting to over ₹1.5 crore have been levied. Union Health Minister also stated that over 32 states and union territories already implementing scheme and said that he was upset that citizens of remaining four states that have t implemented scheme cant reap benefits of AB-PMJAY. Harsh Vardhan also congratulated entire team of AB-PMJAY which was instrumental in application of scheme according to Prime Minister's vision using techlogy and science.

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