Transforming Health through e-Payments in India
The World Bank Group (WBG), in collaboration with the Government of Bihar, is implementing a government-to-person (G2P) health payments project with co-funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The timeliness and integrity of these...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/632281504685018934/Transforming-health-through-e-payments-in-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28139 |
| Summary: | The World Bank Group (WBG), in
collaboration with the Government of Bihar, is implementing
a government-to-person (G2P) health payments project with
co-funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(BMGF). The timeliness and integrity of these monetary
incentives are key to their effectiveness. In late 2009, WBG
began discussions with the State Health Society of Bihar
(SHSB) and BMGF about delays and inefficiencies related to
conditional incentive payments to health program
beneficiaries and health workers. On the basis of those
initial discussions, WBG conducted a diagnostic with SHSB on
health payments in Bihar in 2010-11. WBG found that health
programs in Bihar experienced significant delays (ranging
from two months to two years) in making incentive payments
and that health officials spent nearly 30 percent of their
time administering payments instead of providing health care
services. To address those challenges, WBG recommended that
SHSB modernize its health payment system by: (a) automating
the calculation, verification, and recording of payments;
(b) enabling centralized payment processing; and (c) making
payments using electronic funds transfers directly into
beneficiary bank accounts. |
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