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India Courts Private Hospitals To Boost ‘Modicare’ Health Insurance Programme

Nov 23, 2019 | Pratirodh Bureau

Indu Bhushan, CEO of India's National Health Authority (NHA), poses for a picture inside his office after an interview with Reuters in New Delhi on November 21, 2019

India will offer incentives to private hospitals to take part in the government’s health insurance programme, potentially the biggest of its kind in the world, a senior government official told Reuters.

Launched last year, the scheme is critical to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plans to reform the country’s health system, where private healthcare is too expensive for most people and public hospitals are overburdened and often dilapidated.

The “Modicare” programme offers families health cover of up to 500,000 rupees ($7,000) a year for serious ailments – a significant amount by Indian standards – but the scheme has struggled to gain traction.

India has so far registered about 20% of the eligible 500 million people, due to lack of public awareness of the scheme and low private sector participation, said Indu Bhushan, CEO of the National Health Authority (NHA), which runs the programme.

“There is a challenge of creating awareness and building the required infrastructure,” Bhushan said in an interview. “We need to work more on awareness … give us time.”

Under the programme, more than 6 million people have so far received treatment free of charge, he said.

Currently, 60% of the approximately 20,000 hospitals registered under the programme are in the private sector, Bhushan said, adding that increasing their participation was critical to the scheme’s success.

Private hospitals, however, are concerned about costs. A report by Indian lobby group FICCI and consultants EY said in August that private hospitals complained that treatment rates offered by the NHA covered only 40-80% of their costs.

Bhushan said his agency was in talks with hospitals, industry groups and service providers and was open to revising rates, even though he had last month increased payments offered to hospitals for some treatments.

“We are hoping that private sector would come. If rates are not viable, private sector will not come,” he said.

The NHA’s budget spending also reflects the slow uptake of the scheme. The health agency will spend only 50-55 billion rupees ($766 million) of the allocated 62 billion rupees in the current fiscal year that ends in March, said Bhushan.

In order to expand the scheme more swiftly, however, the NHA was likely to seek at least 80 billion rupees for next year, 30% more than its current annual budget, a senior government source said.

“In the next one year, the scheme should be quite well-known across the country,” Bhushan said.

Tags: “Modicare”, consultants EY, FICCI, health insurance programme, National Health Authority, NHA, prime minister narendra modi, private hospitals

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