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JAY Ho: Ayushman Bharat's Jan Arogya Yojana (JAY) and Health Outcomes 289

the neighbouring states witnessed 7-8 per cent greater reduction in these health outcomes.
3. Modern methods of contraception, female sterilization and pill usage went up by 36 per
cent, 22 per cent and 28 per cent respectively in the three neighbouring states while the
respective changes for West Bengal were negligible. While West Bengal did not witness any
significant decline in unmet need for spacing between consecutive kids, the neighbouring
three states recorded a 37 per cent fall.
4. Various metrics for mother and child care improved more in the three neighbouring states
than in West Bengal.

5. Each of the effects described above (points 2-4) manifested similarly when we compare all
states that implemented PM-JAY versus the states that did not.
9.9 Overall, the comparison reflects significant improvements in several health outcomes
in states that implemented PM-JAY versus those that did not. As the difference-in-differnce
analysis controls for various compounding factors, the Survey infers that PMJAY impacted
health outcomes positively.

PM-JAY: STATUS AND PROGRESS SO FAR

9.10 As per the latest annual report of PM-JAY released by the National Health Authority
(NHA, 2019), the status of implementation is as follows:
- 32 states and UTs implement the scheme
- 13.48 crore E-cards have been issued

- Treatments worth INR 7,490 crore have been provided (1.55 crores hospital admission)
- 24,215 hospitals empaneled
- 1.5 crore users have registered on the scheme’s website (mera.pmjay.gov.in)

Figure 1: The distribution in utilization of various procedures

Source: NHA data secured from PMJAY

9.11 Figure 1 plots the number of PM-JAY pre-authorizations claims for a procedure against
the average price of the procedure for the time period September 2018 through January 2021
(till January 13, 2021). The distribution is a long-tailed one that peaks in the range of INR
10,000-15,000. The highest number of pre-authorization claims received were for procedures