On the occasion of New Year 2024, the Haryana Government has presented a significant gift—a cashless health facility—for government employees and their dependents. Governor Sh Bandaru Dattatreya, in the presence of Chief Minister Sh Manohar Lal, inaugurated the cashless health facility under the Ayushman Yojana on Monday.
The state government initiated the scheme on a pilot basis, initially covering employees from the Fisheries and Horticulture departments, offering cashless healthcare facilities starting November 1, 2023. The coverage has been expanded to include all regular government employees. Furthermore, the scheme is being extended on a pilot basis to encompass employees of the Department of Horticulture and Fisheries, as well as IAS, IPS, and IFS, along with their dependents. Implementation of this scheme is carried out through the Ayushman Bharat Haryana Health Protection Authority (State Health Authority).
Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and Chief Minister Manohar Lal also symbolically distributed Ayushman cards to the beneficiaries during the cashless health facility inauguration program organized here today. All beneficiaries will greatly benefit from this cashless scheme as the procedures listed under it will be completely cashless, and the hospitals will get their claims approved from a single platform within a specified time frame. The scheme will provide more efficient, seamless, hassle-free, and time-bound services to the beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
The scheme not only covers six life-threatening emergencies (i.e., cardiac emergency, cerebral hemorrhage, coma, electric shock, third and fourth stage cancer patients, and any kind of accidents as per the existing provisions) but also covers all types of indoor treatments/daycare procedures, catering to the healthcare needs. These services will be available to the beneficiaries in all the hospitals empaneled with DGHS under this scheme.
E-card/CCHF card will be issued to all the beneficiaries to avail benefits under the scheme in the empaneled hospitals. Beneficiaries can avail benefits using payee code, Aadhaar number, or PPP number. The entire expenditure under the scheme will be borne by the state government. On this occasion, Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal, Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department G. Anupama, Director General of Police Shatrujit Kapoor, Chairperson of Haryana Water Resources Authority Keshni Anand Arora, State Election Commissioner Dhanpat Singh, and CEO of Ayushman Bharat Rajnarayan Kaushik, and other officers were also present.
