The flagship health insurance scheme launched in September 2018 saw a further boost as the move aims to benefit approximately 45 million families, having 60 million senior citizens, with 5 lakh free health insurance cover on a family basis.
With this approval, all senior citizens of the age 70 years and above, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, would be eligible to avail of the benefits of ABPMJAY. The beneficiary base expansion will be done at an outlay of ₹3,437 crore. According to data available on the National Health Authority dashboard, the scheme has so far covered over 352 million citizens, who received free health insurance of ₹5 lakh for hospitalisation.
The scheme provides cashless and paperless benefit cover of 5 lakh per annum per family on a floater basis in empanelled hospitals across India. The eligible senior citizens would be issued a new distinct card under AB-PMJAY.
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