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What's cooking? Investors line up for a share of the health insurance pie

Four out of the seven standalone health insurers have seen stake buyouts either by PEs or strategic players in recent months

NHA, IRDAI recommend measures to check frauds, data standardization

In the report, the experts recommended building a national repository of empanelled hospitals under insurance/government schemes with defined standards for quality and package rates and codes

Ayushman Bharat: Almost one year on, states and centre still not in sync

As a part of the agenda, all state-run schemes are required to merge into Ayushman Bharat

No proposal to review prices of packages under Ayushman Bharat, says govt

West Bengal government rolled back the Ayushman Bharat scheme in January 2019

Patients to fake websites: One year of Ayushman Bharat reviewed in numbers

The scheme is being used for secondary care more than tertiary care

Aster DM Healthcare eyes diagnostic services, clinics; to expand bed-count

Dubai headquartered hospital chain bringing its Access brand to India for low income patients; to join Ayushman Bharat

Newsmaker: Why the next 40 days are critical for Ayushman boss Indu Bhushan

The head of the mega health mission says his experience as a bureaucrat in India is standing him in better stead than his East Asian experiences with public health programmes

Ayushman Bharat will serve a population larger than the US: Indu Bhushan

In a Q&A, the CEO of the world's largest healthcare infra scheme dwells on the speed at which his team is working to roll out a plan to cover 500 mn people

Ayushman Bharat working to identify those left out, says CEO Indu Bhushan

In the first year, the momentum has been quite good and we are quite pleased with the way the scheme has rolled out, says Bhushan

Letter to BS: PM's Ayushman scheme a precursor to Indian health care system

The choice of the six states for the pilot programme is wise

Apollo Hospitals to join Ayushman Bharat, but only in smaller cities

In metropolitan cities, however, it will continue to stay away till the government programme raises the rates for surgery and treatment

Will not accept renaming of Ayushman Bharat scheme in Rajasthan: Centre

Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat also accused the Ashok Gehlot government of failing to implement the Centre sponsored schemes in Rajasthan properly

NITI mulls health system for middle class not covered by Ayushman Bharat

The report was released by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar in the presence of Bill Gates, the co-chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

NSO data paints a dismal picture of health insurance in the country

While households across income groups are borrowing less to pay for medical costs, the insurance sector has progressively ignored the poor and focused instead on the more lucrative upper-income groups

Cabinet Secy directs Central ministries to empanel hospitals with AB-PMJAY

As of now, 18,649 hospitals have been empanelled and more than 55 lakh beneficiaries have been provided with free treatment under the AB-PMJAY

338 hospitals penalised for submitting forged claims under Ayushman Bharat

Some instances of creation of fake cards and submission of manipulated/forged claims under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) have come to the notice

Low health care expenditure to impact risk-pooling model: NITI Aayog

Think tank plans building up system for middle class, which isn't covered under any health scheme

India's multiple asymmetries

Till the current self-created economic slowdown ends, we can safely wallow in India's greatness in a mythical golden age when we apparently knew all about nuclear weapons and plastic surgery

Hospitals cheating Ayushman Bharat scheme will be named and shamed: govt

The government has found nearly 1,200 cases of fraud and taken action against 338 hospitals, says Harsh Vardhan.

India's healthcare system might struggle to keep pace by 2030, says report

Doctors are looking for multiple types of support to manage the complexity-with 85 per cent of doctors upgrading their own clinical skills