Edition 78: Insurers want you to pay 10% of your hospital bill. The Supreme Court is looking at the hospitals.
Insurers discussed making patients pay 10% of every hospital claim, IRDAI has not approved it, and no premium cut has been stat...
Edition 76: Nobody will mandate NHCX. Your regulator, your insurer and your data law will.
NHA’s dashboard shows 46,996 government-scheme hospitals on NHCX and 867 private ones. Everyone is waiting for a notification t...
Edition 71: India Reaches Almost Every Pregnant Woman Once. Then It Loses Her.
NFHS-6: 95.9% of pregnant women see a health worker once, 65.2% complete four check-ups, 37.8% finish their iron tablets, and 1...
Edition 70: You Cannot Fix an Org Chart With an API
The Swasth Bharat Portal puts multiple national health programmes behind one login, and it is the right thing to build. But Ind...
Edition 69: Can Gig Work Fix India's Healthcare Workforce?
No, not the problem people think it fixes. Gig platforms solve scheduling; India’s workforce crisis is distribution and financi...
Edition 62: Profit or Patient Care? That's the Wrong Question
Margins and patient care pull against each other, but it’s a design problem boards can fix, not an ethics problem they can only...