Traditionally, from the payer s perspective, the healthcare model has been focussed on the quantity of services delivered, where case-based bundled payment is made on the basis of the number of services provided.Offi
National Health Authority (NHA) is introducing a new system to measure and grade hospital performance under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, aiming to focus on measuring the performance of hospitals from the volume of services provided to the value of healthcare services. National Health Authority Introduces New System To Measure Performance of Hospitals Under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY.
The government highlighted "an encouraging trend" in health expenditure indicators in the recent National Health Accounts estimates for 2018-19. Still, the total healthcare spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product fell by one percentage point.
Vanita Singh (vanita.singh@mdi.ac.in) teaches economics and public policy at the Management Development Institute, Gurugram. Amit Garg teaches in the Public Systems Group at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.