Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared a citizen’s response to Ayushman Bharat Scheme highlighting the health insurance cover of 5 lakh rupees for all Indian citizens.
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The Prime Minister remarked that the benefits of the scheme can be availed all over India.
Ayushman Bharat is National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (providing coverage upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.
Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public/private empanelled hospitals across the country.
It will be an entitlement-based scheme with entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation criteria in the SECC database.
States would need to have State Health Agency (SHA) to implement the scheme.
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