The state health agency responsible for operating the Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana (AAUY) in the State has decided to increase the money offered by it for treatment of critical diseases.
The agency has affected an increase of 10 to 60 percent in the packages for treatment of diseases like Breast cancer surgery, bye pass surgery, pacemaker, stent in heart, knee replacement, stone in gall bladder and many other critical diseases. Recently, the union government had increased the package rates of many diseases under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana after which the State Government has also decided to increase the rates.
In Uttarakhand the benefit of increased packages would start from month of March. A total of 37 lakh people are expected to be benefited by the new measure. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the Atal Ayushman Yojana, Arunendra Singh Chauhan said that the hospitals have been informed about the new packages and the software is being updated. Launched on December 25, 2018, the AAUY, provides a cover of Rs 5 lakh per annum to all 23 lakh families of Uttarakhand in the panelled hospitals under the scheme.
Patients can avail benefit of the scheme for 1350 types of diseases in these hospitals. For treatment in the private empanelled hospitals, the patients are needed to be referred from the government hospitals.
