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A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital

BACKGROUND: Out of pocket and catastrophic healthcare expenditures are leading households to financial hardships in India. The covid-19 pandemic has further added up in the loss of jobs, savings, and lives. The inclusion of covid-19 treatments in health insurance schemes like Ayushman Bharat Arogya...

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Autores principales: Shrisharath, K., Hiremat, Shivkumar, Nanjesh Kumar, S., Rai, Pooja, Erappa, S., Holla, Akshay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8930177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35342845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101015
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author Shrisharath, K.
Hiremat, Shivkumar
Nanjesh Kumar, S.
Rai, Pooja
Erappa, S.
Holla, Akshay
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Nanjesh Kumar, S.
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description BACKGROUND: Out of pocket and catastrophic healthcare expenditures are leading households to financial hardships in India. The covid-19 pandemic has further added up in the loss of jobs, savings, and lives. The inclusion of covid-19 treatments in health insurance schemes like Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka by the Government has helped families from financial hardships and catastrophic healthcare expenditures. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the utilization of the Ayushman Bharat insurance scheme among covid-19 positive patients in a tertiary care hospital, Dakshina Kannada District. METHODOLOGY: It was a record-based, cross-sectional study. The study was conducted by collecting data from the hospital medical records department by taking prior permission at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka. The data was collected and entered into an excel sheet, analyzed, and presented in percentage in the tabular form. RESULTS: In the present study total 1367 covid-19 positive cases were admitted. Majority of the patients were from Karnataka accounting for 93.92%. The eligible subjects for ABArK were 906 (66.27%), Out of which 714 (78.8%) had utilized the scheme. Among the 714 patients who utilized the ABArK scheme 443 (62.04%) were men and 271 (37.95%) were women. CONCLUSION: The utilization of this scheme requires further improvement by creating awareness activities among general public. This helps in reducing the out-of-pocket expenditure and burden in accessing the healthcare facility.
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spelling pubmed-89301772022-03-18 A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital Shrisharath, K. Hiremat, Shivkumar Nanjesh Kumar, S. Rai, Pooja Erappa, S. Holla, Akshay Clin Epidemiol Glob Health Article BACKGROUND: Out of pocket and catastrophic healthcare expenditures are leading households to financial hardships in India. The covid-19 pandemic has further added up in the loss of jobs, savings, and lives. The inclusion of covid-19 treatments in health insurance schemes like Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka by the Government has helped families from financial hardships and catastrophic healthcare expenditures. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the utilization of the Ayushman Bharat insurance scheme among covid-19 positive patients in a tertiary care hospital, Dakshina Kannada District. METHODOLOGY: It was a record-based, cross-sectional study. The study was conducted by collecting data from the hospital medical records department by taking prior permission at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka. The data was collected and entered into an excel sheet, analyzed, and presented in percentage in the tabular form. RESULTS: In the present study total 1367 covid-19 positive cases were admitted. Majority of the patients were from Karnataka accounting for 93.92%. The eligible subjects for ABArK were 906 (66.27%), Out of which 714 (78.8%) had utilized the scheme. Among the 714 patients who utilized the ABArK scheme 443 (62.04%) were men and 271 (37.95%) were women. CONCLUSION: The utilization of this scheme requires further improvement by creating awareness activities among general public. This helps in reducing the out-of-pocket expenditure and burden in accessing the healthcare facility. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of INDIACLEN. 2022 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8930177/ /pubmed/35342845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101015 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Holla, Akshay
A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title_full A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title_fullStr A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title_full_unstemmed A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title_short A study on the utilisation of Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka (ABArK) among COVID patients admitted in a Tertiary Care Hospital
title_sort study on the utilisation of ayushman bharat arogya karnataka (abark) among covid patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8930177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35342845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2022.101015
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