New Delhi: At the 86th Meeting of Medical Benefit Council held at ESIC headquarters here the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation’s (ESIC) Medical Benefit Council approved convergence of ESI scheme with Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY to enhance healthcare accessibility to beneficiaries. The meeting was chaired by Ashok Kumar Singh, Director General (DG), ESIC. Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY is the largest health assurance scheme in the world which aims at providing a health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 12 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 55 crore beneficiaries) that form the bottom 40 per cent of the Indian population.
The council also approved the implementation of the Common Support Mission (CSM) for states. The CSM aims to improve and strengthen ESI’s medical service delivery system in sates with focus on the IP (insured persons) centric approach. Besides, the council approved the launch of annual preventive health check-ups & awareness camps for the beneficiaries to focus on early diagnosis of lifestyle disorders; identification of pre-cancerous lesions, and detection of nutritional deficiencies among insured persons / women / transgenders. The meeting was attended by T L Yaden, Financial Commissioner; Deepika Govil, Medical Commissioner, ESIC and other senior officers of ESIC. Members of state governments and the central government were also present during the meeting.
