{"id":6380,"date":"2026-04-20T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:07:27","slug":"goa-bags-top-national-award-for-fastest-pre-auth-approvals-under-ab-pm-jay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/goa-bags-top-national-award-for-fastest-pre-auth-approvals-under-ab-pm-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa Bags Top National Award for Fastest Pre-Auth Approvals under AB PM-JAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Panaji, April 20, 2026:<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>Goa has emerged as a national leader in healthcare delivery, securing the Best Performing Small State award in the Pre-Authorization Approval TAT (Overall) category for FY 2025\u201326 under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.<\/strong><\/em><br><br>The award was presented by Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Authority, during the Chintan Shivir held on April 17\u201318 in Pune.<br><br>Representing the state, Yatindra Maralkar, Secretary (Health) and CEO of AB PM-JAY Goa, along with Dikshita Borkar, received the honour.<br><br>The recognition underscores Goa\u2019s strong administrative efficiency and commitment to delivering timely, citizen-centric healthcare. During the year, the state processed 12,991 pre-authorization cases, covering treatments worth Rs. 3 crore, ensuring prompt access to critical medical services.<br><br>Under AB PM-JAY\u2014considered the world\u2019s largest government-funded health assurance scheme\u2014eligible families receive annual coverage of up to Rs. 5 lakh for secondary and tertiary hospitalization across empanelled hospitals nationwide, with the benefit of cashless treatment and pan-India portability.<br><br>In Goa, the scheme currently operates through a network of 26 empanelled hospitals, offering access to 2,685 medical procedures, including day care, secondary, and advanced tertiary treatments.<br><br>Officials stated that the award reinforces Goa\u2019s position as a model for efficient healthcare governance, setting a benchmark for other states to follow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panaji, April 20, 2026:Goa has emerged as a national leader in healthcare delivery, securing the Best Performing Small State award in the Pre-Authorization Approval TAT (Overall) category for FY 2025\u201326&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gaonkaari.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG-20260420-WA0021.jpg?fit=1152%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaonkaari.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}