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A recent study conducted by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI) reveals that the cost of cancer treatment during outpatient visits is much higher than during hospitalization. The study surveyed 9,787 patients across seven cancer centers in India and found that diagnostics accounted for 36.4% of total expenditure, with medicines making up an additional 28%.
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PM-JAY, India’s national health insurance program, is the largest publicly funded health insurance program in the world. It has reformed the way in which the poor and vulnerable access hospital care in India. The size of this program and the inclusion of private providers in delivering care has led to the implementation of a provider case-based payments scheme. Case-based payments are widely used throughout the world as a means of paying both individual and institutional health care providers in a manner that incentivizes efficiency relative to fee-for-service payment or traditional indemnity insurance payment.