Rajasthan to implement Centre's flagship health scheme Ayushman Bharat

 Rajasthan government has given an official go-ahe to implement Ayushman Bharat - Prhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) in state, ending months-long wait over implementation of Centre's flagship scheme.

AB-PMJAY will be integrated with Rajasthan's existing health scheme, Bhamashah Swasthya Bima Yojana (BSBY).

Dr Indu Bhushan, CEO of  AB-PMJAY and National Health Authority (NHA), apex body responsible for implementation of scheme, said NHA h constantly been working with  Rajasthan government in finding approaches to seamlessly integrate BSBY with AB-PMJAY.

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"On Friday, Rohit Singh, ditional Chief Secretary (Health), Rajasthan, informed us about approval for implementation of AB-PMJAY in state," Bhushan said.

"We are very happy with outcome and have assured all possible support, including technical and policy-related assistance, to Rajasthan," he ded.

Currently, Rajasthan is providing benefits to 97 lakh families under BSBY.

Many of eligible families under AB-PMJAY are alrey covered under BSBY.

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All eligible families will be able to avail health benefits up to Rs 5 Lakh per year under scheme. As far as techlogy-related aspects are concerned in rolling out scheme, Rajasthan would continue current software implementation, Bhushan said. As a part of pack mapping, Rajasthan will run an exercise to ensure all packs specified under AB-PMJAY are mapped with packs in BSBY.

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However, similar to any state running AB-PMJAY, Rajasthan has complete flexibility to expand beyond AB-PMJAY packs. AB-PMJAY is a flagship scheme of Union governmemt that aims to provide a health cover up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation to over 10.74 crore vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries). scheme provides a cashless and paperless access to services for beneficiary at point of service. Under this scheme, re are 1,393 health benefit packs with defined rates. Over 15,000 hospitals and health care providers have been empanelled across country as per se packs.