About National Health Accounts (NHA) estimates for India 2022-23:
- The NHA estimates, released annually, provide a time-series analysis of actual health expenditure incurred by the government, private sector, and other sources.
- The current estimates for 2022-23 mark the 10th edition in the series that began in 2013-14.
- It is prepared by the National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat (NHATS) under the National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, using the internationally accepted System of Health Accounts (2011) framework.
- Highlights:
- The report indicates an increase in government expenditure on healthcare since 2013-14.
- The report showed that government health expenditure increased from Rs 1.30 lakh crore in 2013-14 to Rs 3.85 lakh crore in 2022-23.
- The share of government health expenditure in the country’s GDP has risen from 15 percent in 2013-14 to 1.43 percent in 2022-23. According to the new GDP series with base year 2022-23, the figure stands at 1.48 percent.
- Similarly, government health expenditure’s share in general government expenditure has increased from 78 percent to 4.89 percent over the same period.
- In per capita terms, government health expenditure has increased nearly 2.7 times, from 1042 to Rs. 2786 between 2013-14 and 2022-23.
- The share of government health expenditure in total health expenditure has increased by almost 15 percentage points, from 28.6 percent in 2013-14 to 7 percent in 2022-23.
- The increase in public spending has contributed to a substantial decline in out-of-pocket expenditure incurred by households on healthcare.
- Out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of total health expenditure fell from2 percent in 2013-14 to 43.4 percent in 2022-23.
- The share of Social Security Expenditure (SSE) in total health expenditure -- which includes government-funded health insurance such as the AB PM-JAY, medical reimbursements to government employees, and social health insurance programmes -- has increased substantially from 6 percent in 2013-14 to 9.9 percent in 2022-23.
- The share of private health insurance in total health expenditure has also increased, from4 percent to 9.2 percent.
- Expenditure on primary healthcare by the government more than doubled from Rs 0.5 lakh crore in 2013-14 to Rs 1.4 lakh crore in 2022-23.
