Abstract:
Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme is one of the key elements of the
scheme is the cashless treatment with the network hospitals where under the beneficiaries once
registered do not have to pay at all for the entire process of treatment. This has become possible by
evolving package rates which in addition to the actual cost of treatment includes conduct of health
camps, screening of patients, diagnostics, testing and treatment, food, transport and follow-up
medicines. The package rates are for end-to-end cashless treatment of the poor living below poverty
line in network hospitals. The rates have redefined the relationship between the hospitals and the
poor patients as lack of money with them is no longer a constraint to get the best of the medical care
available in any corporate or government hospital in the state. The present paper focuses on the
perception of the beneficiaries on Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme in Andhra
Pradesh.
