India's publicly financed insurance scheme – scope for revision

India’s publicly financed insurance scheme: scope for revision – authors’ reply

“…Gupta H 1 also reiterates an important issue of the lack of electronic health records to obtain patient level clinical information, an aspect which we highlighted in the limitations to our paper. In fact, this has been cited as an important bottleneck in several previous costing studies also.…”

“…We wish to thank Gupta H 1 for interest in our research article 2 and making important observations. We would like to provide the response to the points made in the Comment.…”

“…As mentioned by Gupta H 1 , lack of effective gatekeeping by primary care facilities within public health system is a feature which is characteristic of several South Asian countries. 5 Our study 2 also refers to this, however, from the point of view of gatekeeping certain secondary care services or packages under the PMJAY to the public sector district hospitals.…”