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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Main Authors:	Isern, Jennifer, Sharma, Anita, Marin, Georgina
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS E-BUSINESS E-COMMERCE HEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/632281504685018934/Transforming-health-through-e-payments-in-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28139

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spelling	okr-10986-281392021-05-25T10:54:44Z Transforming Health through e-Payments in India Isern, Jennifer Sharma, Anita Marin, Georgina ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS E-BUSINESS E-COMMERCE HEALTH 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. 2017-09-07T15:21:27Z 2017-09-07T15:21:27Z 2017 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/632281504685018934/Transforming-health-through-e-payments-in-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28139 English en_US Finance In Focus; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief South Asia India
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description	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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author	Isern, Jennifer Sharma, Anita Marin, Georgina
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title	Transforming Health through e-Payments in India
title_short	Transforming Health through e-Payments in India
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Transforming Health through e-Payments in India

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