Jammu, April 19 (UNI) The pending dues of private hospitals empanelled with Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Arogya Yojana (AB-PMAY) are likely to be cleared in a week, official sources in the Health and Medical Education Department said on Tuesday.
Notably, a number of private hospitals and diagnostic centres were empanelled for providing treatment to patients under the AB-PMAY scheme but inordinate delay in getting payments has prompted them to refuse dispensing services to the patients.
However, the financial liabilities of the scheme have mounted to around Rs 70 crore.
However, the financial liabilities of the scheme have mounted to around Rs 70 crore.
More than 160 Government and private hospitals in J&K have been empanelled under the scheme.
“About Rs 70 crores are to be paid to empanelled hospitals, out of which about 50 percent is to be paid to private hospitals as the payments have not been cleared since months,” sources added.
They said that the delay in clearance of dues has severely affected the financial health of private hospitals as they failed to provide salaries to staff/employees besides meeting day-to-day expenses.
A senior official associated with the scheme pleading anonymity said that people are facing problems with non-payment of dues but all pending dues are expected to be cleared within a week.
“A meeting in this regard was also chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary Health and Medical Education and he assured that all payments will be released by the end of this week,” he revealed.
As per laid norms under the centrally sponsored scheme, the reimbursement to hospitals has to be cleared within 15 days.
