Ayushman Bharat hospitals may soon treat CGHS beneficiaries
Hindustan TimesIn a bid to provide more hospital options for patients, the government is considering allowing Central Government Health Scheme beneficiaries to avail treatment at hospitals empaneled with the flagship Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna, people familiar with the matter said. “It is being planned that the beneficiaries of the CGHS scheme can CGHS and AB-PMJAY are two separate health insurance schemes run by the government. There are several changes in the pipeline for the current public health insurance schemes, which also include having a unified card for AB-PMJAY and schemes run by individual states, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya had said at a select briefing last month. Many states have their own health insurance schemes, and there was a lot of confusion among beneficiaries regarding empanelled hospitals, implementation support agencies, insurance companies, and third-party administrators.
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