Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri - Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), the Union Government's nationwide public health insurance scheme to provide low-income workers with free access to health insurance coverage, crossed the milestone of 30 crore Ayushman cards on January 12. 

With 4.83 crore Ayushman Cards, Uttar Pradesh tops the list of States with the highest number of Ayushman Cards created. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra stand at number two and three positions with 3.78 crore and 2.39 crore Ayushman cards respectively. 

11 States have more than 1 crore Ayushman card holders. Kerala has only 75,26,223 card holders as of January 14. However, Kerala is among the top five states with the most authorised hospital admissions under the scheme. 

With 90,49,496 authorised hospital admissions, Tamil Nadu tops the list. Karnataka and Rajasthan stand at number two and three positions with 66,04,849 and 57,41,363 hospital admissions, respectively.  Kerala is fourth with 54,64,674 hospital admissions. Andhra Pradesh is in fifth position with 49,67,217 hospital admissions.

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY has successfully catered to 6.2 crore hospital admissions worth more than Rs 79,157 crores. If the beneficiary would have availed the same treatment on their own outside the ambit of AB PM-JAY, the total cost of the treatment would have gone nearly 2 times higher, thus, saving more than Rs 1.25 lakh crore out-of-pocket expenditure of poor and deprived families.

With PIB  inputs