Cardiac care for the economically challenged: What are the options?

The hospital gets its package and so remains sustainable, the patient pays what he/she can afford and the donor's money is well used.However, charity is not always the best way to grow and be sustainable. [...] other models have been conceived, one of the more successful of which has been the Y...

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Published in:Annals of pediatric cardiology 2009-01, Vol.2 (1), p.91-94
Main Authors: Maheshwari, Sunita, Kiran, Vs
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardiac patients
Care and treatment
Diagnosis
Heart diseases
Heart surgery
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Mortality
Patients
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Summary:The hospital gets its package and so remains sustainable, the patient pays what he/she can afford and the donor's money is well used.However, charity is not always the best way to grow and be sustainable. [...] other models have been conceived, one of the more successful of which has been the Yeshashwini insurance scheme - each member of a cooperative group pays a nominal amount and the corpus created is used to fund surgeries that are one-time expensive medical interventions.
ISSN:0974-2069
0974-5149
DOI:10.4103/0974-2069.52813