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India's out-of-pocket healthcare spending drops significantly, govt data showsIndian families now pay less for healthcare. Out-of-pocket spending fell from 64.2% to 43.4% in ten years. This is due to the government sp...- Out-of-pocket costs still dominate hospitalisation spend despite wider insurance coverage: NSO surveyHealth insurance coverage has grown significantly in India. However, patients continue to pay most hospitalisation bills themselves. Rural ...
- Employees left without salary after boss forgets to submit their working hours. Instead of helping, he replies 'Oops'A worker’s post on Reddit has gone viral after revealing that their manager failed to submit payroll on time, leaving an entire team withou...
- Affording to age better: How India must prepare for its rapidly ageing populationIndia's aging population is set to surge by 2050, revealing stark consumption disparities across economic groups and regions. Healthcare ac...
- Healthcare tug-of-war: States vs. Center in IndiaHealth is managed at the state level in India, but the central government is involved in policy and finance. This power-sharing often cause...
- Economic Survey highlights Ayushman Bharat's multiplier effectAyushman Bharat saved 1.25 lakh crore, covered 7.37 crore admissions, reduced NPA rates, per Economic Survey 2023-2024. Increased GHE, prim...
- Centre steps to push affordable generic drugs help Jan Aushadhi stores cross sales targetIndia's affordable generic medicine scheme, Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP), achieved sales of INR1,236 crore ($162m...
- Your personal health expenditure is still more than the government’s, shows Economic Survey 2023According to the Economic Survey 2023, the share of government expenditure in Total Health Expenditure (THE) has increased over time from 2...
- 9 ways to reduce out-of-pocket medical expenses, optimise your health insurance coverFind out how to optimise your insurance plan and strategise medical expenses to bring down your healthcare costs.
- Health savings account best way to promote OPD product: Mayank Bathwal, Aditya Birla Health InsuranceThe best way to promote an affordable, relevant and meaningful OPD product is through a health savings account, where you put aside a pool ...
- QubeHealth card offers credit of Rs 10 lakh with no interest for medical expenses: Should you get it?The card is powered by Visa and RuPay, and can be used to pay for any health or medical expense, including medicines, diagnostics, physical...
- Insurance penetration in India requires combined efforts of all stakeholdersInsurance chiefs were speaking at the National Insurance Academy (NIA) organised annual insurance summit on Thursday.
- If govt spends your tax on better healthcare you would have to spend less: SurveyThe survey suggests that the government needs to increase its expenses to bring down this burden of higher healthcare cost. "Increased prio...
- The Covid-19 crisis has underlined the need for more budgetary allocation for healthcareCovid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses ...
- Fit basic healthcare cuts hospital spend: StudyThe scale of the reduction in expenses varied between 77% and 92% in three blocks in Tamil Nadu in a pilot project on ensuring universal he...
- Over 1000% difference in medical test prices across cities: Will govt standardise rates?An analysis by the economic survey reveals that there are not only wide differences in average prices of diagnostic tests but also the pric...
- To teach Virat Kohli a lesson, an engineer applies for coach's postThe 30-year-old Bramhachari, who works for a construction company took this opportunity to apply as the email address was available on BCCI...
- Budget 2016: Duty waiver for dialysis equipment to cut costs for renal patients“Almost 2.2 lakh new patients of end-stage renal diseases get added in India every year, resulting in an additional demand for 3.4 crore di...
- Rising medical bills cripple aam admiIndia's per capita out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure to pay for healthcare costs has gone up from Rs 41.83 in 2005 to Rs 68.63 in 2010.
- ‘Free medicines for all’ plan gets PMO thumbs upHealth ministry ready to roll out a nearly Rs 30,000 crore 'free-medicines-for-all' scheme with the PMO's strong backing.
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