Open AccessAn Audit of Indian Health Insurance Claims for Mental Illness from Pooled Insurance Information Bureau's Macroindicator Data
Author(s) -
Anusa Arunachalam Mohandoss,
Rooban Thavarajah
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.207340
Subject(s) - mental illness , mental health , medicine , descriptive statistics , health insurance , audit , chi square test , test (biology) , demography , psychiatry , actuarial science , family medicine , business , health care , accounting , law , sociology , political science , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , biology
Information on the social and voluntary insurance coverage of mental illness in India is scarce. We attempted to address this lacuna, utilizing a secondary macrodata approach for 3 years. Mental illness per se is not covered by most of existing Indian health insurance policies.