Highest ever pre-authorisations under Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka recorded in May

SAST has settled claims worth ₹ 225 crore, including ₹ 125 crore to private hospitals

Karnataka has recorded the highest ever pre-authorisations under the Ayushman Bharat-Arogya Karnataka, its flagship health insurance scheme, in May this year that saw 1.55 lakh.

While over 13 lakh pre-authorisations were recorded in the whole of last year, nearly 3 lakh have been recorded in the first two months of this financial year itself.

According to data from the Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST), the nodal agency that is implementing the health scheme, this year so far the demand is high for simple secondary general procedures followed by general medicine and gynaecology.

Claims worth a total of ₹225 crore raised by empanelled hospitals, including ₹125 crore by private facilities, have been settled by SAST this financial year so far. With this, 2,61,585 patients have been treated free of cost under AB-ArK this financial year.

As many as 2,75,804 simple secondary general procedures have been performed under AB-ArK this year. This is followed by 97,084 general medicine procedures and 93,058 obstetrics and gynaecology procedures performed in empanelled hospitals.

While emergency medicine and interventional neuroradiology procedures have been the least this year, at 10 and 78 respectively.

Arogya Karnataka that was rolled out in March, 2018, was co-branded with Ayushman Bharat on October 30 the same year, after the State signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre.