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. 2024 Aug 5;23:152. doi: 10.1186/s12939-024-02231-2

Table 6.

Financial Protection under PFHI and type of service provider in Kerala in 2014 and 2017-18

71st Round, 2014 75th Round, 2017-18
Private provider without any insurance Private provider with PFHI Public provider without any insurance Public provider with PFHI Private provider without any insurance Private provider with PFHI Public provider without any insurance Public provider with PFHI Trust Hospital without any insurance Trust hospital with PFHI Total Private provider without any insurance* Total Private provider with PFHI
Mean OOPE per hospitalization (in INR) 26,253 13,199 3619 2178 29,353 21,597 4705 3601 28,354 7687 29,304 20,315
Median OOPE per hospitalization (in INR) 8950 6650 1450 720 14,850 10,250 1700 1700 10,870 3600 14,740 9200
% of hospitalization episodes with OOPE < 500 Rs. 2.33 6.4 23.7 40.0 0.1 2.1 24.3 23.6 1.8 15.8 0.2 3.4
% of hospitalization episodes with OOPE < 1000 Rs. 4.5 10.0 40.9 55.1 0.8 5.1 38.6 3.7 3.7 16.8 0.9 6.2
% of hospitalization episodes with OOPE < 3000 Rs. 17.1 25.8 74.0 82.3 6.9 15.7 62.4 68.0 16.3 28.4 7.4 16.9
% of hospitalization episodes with OOPE < 5000 Rs. 29.9 39.0 82.5 90.8 15.1 28.1 74.9 80.9 27.0 63.0 15.7 31.3
Incidence of CHE-10 (%) 49.3 49.7 14.6 15.8 27.8 24.5 17.8 13.5 50.2 21.6 59.3 50.0
Incidence of CHE-25 (%) 22.6 20.8 3.0 7.5 59.8 52.7 8.2 5.3 29.2 10.8 27.6 23.3

* Private total includes for profit private provider and trust/NGO

Source: Authors’ computation from unit records of NSSO (71st Round 2014 and 75th Round 2017-18)