Push For Quality Healthcare: Now Both Private, Govt Hospitals Under Ayushman Bharat To Get Performance-Based Star Ratings

In a major push towards ensuring quality treatment under the Government's flagship Ayushman Bharat programme, both the government and private hospitals enrolled under the programme will now be getting star ratings based on a set of health indicators, reports Economic Times.

The star ratings will be driven by a total of six quality domain areas - effective, timely, safe, patient-centred, efficient and equitable healthcare - as per the guidelines issued by the National Health Authority which functions under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and spearheads the mega healthcare programme.

More than 23,000 hospitals empanelled under the programme will get ratings up to five stars based on scores on the set of elements under each domain area, like advanced and super specialised care, patient fall rate per 1,000 patients, discharge time, patient satisfaction score compliance to quality indicators among others.

For a five star rating, a hospital has to score above or equal to 90 per cent; for a four-star rating, it has to get 75 to 90 per cent; for a three-star rating, it has to get 50 to 75 per cent score; for a two-star rating, it has to score 25 to 50 per cent; while for a hospital to get a one-star rating, it should have a score of less than 25 per cent.

"Star rating of hospitals will be published on the official website of AB-PMJAY and mobile application of PM-JAY against the name of each empanelled hospital," J L Meena, Joint Director at National Health Authority reportedly said.