Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the world's biggest health cover plan announced in the Budget will be cashless and not a reimbursement scheme, and promised more funds if required depending on the rollout later next financial year. Obviously, it will involve various state hospitals and selected private hospitals. It's not on reimbursement model because too many complaints come on the reimbursement model," he said here. Present RSBY provide annual coverage of only Rs 30,000 to poor families." Several state governments have also implemented supplemented health protection schemes providing varying coverage, he had said in the Lok Sabha.

Source: dna February 02, 2018 07:43 UTC