The National Health Authority (NHA) has directed its counterparts in the states to adopt the latest version of the Health Benefit Package (HBP 2022) within their jurisdiction.
The total package count of HBP 2022 has climbed to 1,949 with the inclusion of 365 new medical procedures. In 2018, Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY was launched with HBP 1.0 with a total of 1,393 packages.
Since then, NHA has made several changes in its health benefit packages, from HBP 1.0 in 2018 to HBP 2.0 in 2019 to HBP 2.1 in 2020 to HBP 2.2 last year.
Palliative medicines with 42 procedures is a new specialty covered by HBP 2022. A total of 102 new procedures have been added in intervention radiology, 56 in general medicine, 24 in oncology, 23 in paediatric surgery, and 20 in general surgery.