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Ayushman Bharat Yojana or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) or National Health Protection Scheme or ModiCare is a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2018, under the Ayushman Bharat Mission of MoHFW in India. The scheme aims at making interventions in primary, secondary and tertiary care systems, covering both preventive and promotive health, to address healthcare holistically. It is an umbrella of two major health initiatives namely, Health and Wellness centres and National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS). Indu Bhushan is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Dr Dinesh Arora as the Deputy CEO of Ayushman Bharat Yojana.
1.National Health Protection Scheme
Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage up to 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 or private impaneled hospitals across the country.
It will be an entitlement based scheme with entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation criteria in the SECC database.It will target about 10.74 crore poor, deprived rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers' families as per the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data covering both rural and urban.
One of the core principles of Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission is to co-operative federalism and flexibility to states.
For giving policy directions and fostering coordination between Centre and States, it is proposed to set up Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission Council (AB-NHPMC) at apex level Chaired by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister. States would need to have State Health Agency (SHA) to implement the scheme.
Covering almost all secondary and many tertiary hospitalizations. (except a negative list)[5]
2. Wellness centres
Rs 1200 crore allocated for 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres,Under this 1.5 lakh centres will be setup to provide comprehensive health care,including for non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services, apart from free essential drugs and diagnostic services. The government will upgrade existing Public Health Centres to Wellness Centres. The welfare scheme has been rolled out on August 15, 2018. Further, Contribution of private sector through CSR and philanthropic institutions in adopting these centres is also envisaged.The list of Services to be provided at Health & Wellness Centre include:
Pregnancy care and maternal health services
Neonatal and infant health services
Child health
Chronic communicable diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Management of mental illness
Dental care
Geriatric care Emergency medicine