Empowering Rural Healthcare

ROPAN's Visionary Value-Based Insurance Initiative

ROPAN aims to develop a managed care forward value-based insurance programme which will provide NCD screening for all and out-of-hospital disease management for rural beneficiaries for free. 

This project also provides a platform to generate an additional source of income for the 2.5 lakh ROPAN Sakhis through non-healthcare-based activities and pave the way towards financial literacy and inclusion for 20 Cr rural citizens through partnerships with Financial Institutions.

VISION

Improve Standard of Living by reducing illness and medical expenses
  • Increase life expectancy (e.g. by up to 6 years in diabetes)
  • Reduce medical expenses by up to Rs.26,585
  • Financial empowerment of 33 million Households
  • Increased income by 10 times for ROPAN Sakhis

MISSION

Rollout of India's largest managed healthcare and financial inclusion program
  • Access to NCD Management for all
  • Increase out of hospital NCD insurance cover for 1.2 billion users to mitigate medical expense
  • Monthly touchpoints for Insurance & banking  for 200 million clients
  • Increased financial opportunities for ROPAN Sakhis viz our 45+ partners

OBJECTIVES

Doorstep NCD Management & Financial Screening for 32 million households
  • Screen 200 Million people for major NCDs YOY
  • To provide managed care services to all diagnosed patients
  • Open bank accounts of 200 million Population
  • Immediate Increase of  Rs. 2000/month for Sakhis through core activities

VISION

Improve Standard of Living by reducing illness and medical expenses

  • Increase life expectancy (e.g. by up to 6 years in diabetes)
  • Reduce medical expenses by up to Rs.26,585
  • Financial empowerment of 33 million Households
  • Increased income by 10 times for ROPAN Sakhis

MISSION

Rollout of India's largest managed healthcare and financial inclusion program

  • Access to NCD Management for all
  • Increase out of hospital NCD insurance cover for 1.2 billion users to mitigate medical expense
  • Monthly touchpoints for Insurance & banking  for 200 million clients
  • Increased financial opportunities for ROPAN Sakhis viz our 45+ partners

OBJECTIVES

Doorstep NCD Management & Financial Screening for 32 million households

  • Screen 200 Million people for major NCDs YOY
  • To provide managed care services to all diagnosed patients
  • Open bank accounts of 200 million Population
  • Immediate Increase of  Rs. 2000/month for Sakhis through core activities

PROBLEM STATEMENT

High Prevalence & under diagnosis of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD)

  • NCDs account for 60% of deaths in India
  • Anemia- 50% of adolescent girls (15-19 years old) and 70% young children (6-59 months) experience anemia.
  • Diabetes- Incidence is 2.1% among women & 2.9% among men of age 15-49 years. Prevalence is 14.5 – 33.7%

Current health system is not equipped to detect all NCDs and their treatment

  • India has a doctor-population ratio of 1:1456

  • India 0.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people

Absence of digital optimized workflows in diagnosis, reporting & treatment

  • On average 48 applications/ software are used at grassroots primary healthcare centres in India

Inadequate financial incentives for ROPAN Sakhi

  • The Frontline Workers are paid
    ₹500 - ₹ 2000/ month

SOLUTION

Disease specific Managed care products backed by insurance at NO COST

  • Regular early stage diagnostics, free holistic disease management and follow-up care to rural beneficiaries at home

Optimised software with ABDM + National NCD Portal integrations

  • Reduction in mortality due to NCD’s and increase in healthy longevity of life; it is projected that 75% of all deaths would be because of NCD by 2030.

Financial incentives for ROPAN Sakhis

  • Additional income of ₹11,000/ annum (Minimum)

OVERALL NCDs STRUCTURE

Phase Diseases
Phase 1
Anaemia & Diabetes
Phase 2
Coronary Artery Disease and Hypertension
Phase 3
Kidney Stone, CKD, Hepatitis
Phase 4
Cataract, Glaucoma, Hearing Loss
Phase 5
Cancer – Prostate, Breast, Cervical
Phase 6
Epilepsy
Phase Diseases
Phase 7
Anaemia & Diabetes
Phase 8
Hormonal Diseases – Hyper/Hypo thyroidism, PCOD, Early Menopause
Phase 9
Genetic Disorders
Phase 10
Autoimmune Disorders
Phase 11
Alzeihmer’s & Degenerative Disorders
Phase 12
Mental Health Diseases

OVERALL NCDs STRUCTURE

Phase-wise Progression

15
Days
Goal: Capacity building and device handover to FLWs

Steps:

- Induction program at multiple locations and multiple batches
- Pre-training questionnaire
- Hands-on training of application and devices
- Device distribution
- Post training questionnaire
- On- field deployment.

90
Days
Goal: Screening forward managed care service delivery

Steps:

- ABHA and bank account creation
- Disease screening with smart POC devices
- Teleconsultation and medicine dispensing

15
Days
Goal: Device retention and device transfer

Steps:

- As per the number of f/o cases some devices will be retained with RS Team Lead
- Rest of the devices will be transferred for next phase of the project
- Post testing questionnaire and Impact assessment

3
Years
Goal: Secondary tests followed by teleconsultation and medicine dispensing

Steps:

- Induction program at multiple locations and multiple batches
- Pre-training questionnaire
- Hands-on training of application and devices
- Device distribution
- Post training questionnaire
- On- field deployment.

UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION

Screening Forward Managed Care Services at No Cost

Complete Workflow Digitization for Healthcare

Unified Digital Interface for All the Public Health Programs

Federated Architecture- All Data With Govt, No Need for Data

Largest Financial Inclusion Scheme Since Jan Dhan

Open API Integration - Tech at Doorstep

Additional Source of Income for Ropan Sakhis

Rural Market Access To 20 CR. Consumers

TECHNICAL OFFERINGS

We offer a Unified Digital Interface consisting of

Training Content

Optimized Workflows

ABDM & National NCD Portal Integration

Banking Integration

Point of Care Device Integration

Digital Therapeutics Integration

Telemedicine Integration

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