Vijayawada: The scheme of health cards cashless launched by the government of Andhra Pradesh has made no progress and state government employees still complain that hospitals companies were not accepting health cards.
Health Minister AP Kamineni Srinivas told reporters on Friday that short-comings in the system could be rectified soon. In its opinion, since the system conceived by the Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu was the first of its kind in the country, you can not predict what problems are lead to.However, the minister said that the flaws in the scheme would be studied and a way to be found within six months.
The plan is to enable employees to be treated in hospitals without any upper limit of expenditure incurred. The government should enter into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with hospitals that were certified by the National Council for Accreditation of Hospitals (NaBH).
However, many top notch corporate hospitals have refrained from MOUs are saying that the tariffs set by the government in the GO were inadequate. According KV Krishnaiah, president of the Mesa AP gazetted Association, by a procedure such as bypass surgery that costs Rs 2 lakh the rate set by the government is only Rs 90,000. He said hospitals companies were unwilling to offer special treatments NIMS hospital rates, as set by the government.
The schemes announced by the two governments of AP and Telangana are similar, but with a difference. The AP government has recently awarded a key demand from hospitals to increase the tariffs set by the government be walked by 25 percent. However, there is no conceivable Unlike last.
After getting to know the demand of employees, the Minister has directed the Chief Secretary AIA Krishna Rao to continue the procedure for reimbursement of up to cashless health card scheme comes into operation completely.