STLS

Incentives of INR 500 for notification and outcome declaration will be provided to private providers (Health Facilities).

DBT Maker needs to identify the common errors that can occur at multiple levels of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) processing and take action to resolve that.

During Beneficiary Rejection

The Ni-kshay reports and registers contain beneficiary level information and only authorised users can download these reports from Ni-kshay. Confidential credentials are provided to access these reports.

In the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), the beneficiaries and different staff members have different roles and responsibilities for Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) processing.

Beneficiaries

Private health providers are an inevitable part of the TB treatment and support in the country. These private providers include:

• Practitioner / Clinic etc. (Single)
• Hospital/ Clinic/ Nursing Home etc. (Multi)
• Laboratories
• Chemists

To improve complete reporting and ensure support care for patients in the private sector, the facilities will receive an incentive of:

Special provisions have been made in the tribal, hilly and difficult to reach areas of the country under the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) to expand diagnosis and treatment centres, improve access for TB patients and coverage of TB services.

To provide access to diagnosis and treatment centres for people in the tribal areas, NTEP has initiated transport support for TB patients in notified tribal areas from the year 2019.
 

Transport support is available for patients receiving treatment from both the private and public sectors.

Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) is one of the four initiative-based support schemes which provides financial support to TB patients for their nutrition. A financial incentive of Rs. 500 per month will be provided to patients on anti-TB treatment till the completion of treatment.

After the assigned Checker/ Approver Ni-kshay user clears benefits, Nikshay sends groups/ batches of benefits to PFMS as a "Payment Request" (DBTPayReq). PFMS processes these Payment Requests it receives from Ni-kshay before executing the request. Processing involves checking for any inconsistencies/ errors in the payment request at the batch level and at the benefit level. On processing:

Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Maker and Checker are responsible for the 2-level benefit approval in Ni-kshay, which must be repeated for every benefit.

Ni-kshay automatically generates benefi­ts as per the scheme guidelines. All bene­fits are linked to the patient's episode irrespective of the benefi­ciary.