An Assessment of the Economic Feasibility of Selected Surgeries in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department under Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Table 2

Total cost to the hospital under abdominal hysterectomy, caesarean section, and vaginal hysterectomy.

	Abdominal hysterectomy		Caesarean section			Vaginal hysterectomy
	Arogya Bhagya	ESI	Arogya Bhagya	Arogya Karnataka	ESI	ESI
Bed cost	2,675	2,675	2,229	2,229	2,229	2,675
Consumables	814	1,461	2,014	1,665	1,562	2,056
Electricity and AC	188	188	163	163	163	150
Equipment cost	1,821	1,821	1,156	1,156	1,156	1,244
Medicine	7,355	6,341	3,459	4,982	4,804	4,874
Diagnostics	1,359	1,437	144	1,364	303	1,089
Blood bank materials	—	298	—	943	—	876
Doctor’s fee	933	971	816	944	855	951
Manpower cost-OT	1,529	1,529	1,274	1,274	1,274	1,052
Manpower cost-nursing	1,549	1,549	1,549	1,549	1,549	1,549
Indirect cost	4,361	4,641	3,368	4,623	3,857	4,549
Others	320	928	1,630	1,217	1,677	743
Total (₹)	22,904	23,839	17,802	22,109	19,429	21,808