India, April 27 -- The Maharashtra government last week approved a detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) to provide financial assistance in high-cost, rare organ transplant procedures through a dedicated corpus fund under the expanded Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY) and Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), health officials said on Sunday.

Patients can now access financial assistance for complex procedures costing above Rs.5 lakh up to Rs. 22 lakh. As per the SOP, 20% of the treatment claims funds that empanelled government hospitals receive will be pooled into a central corpus fund managed by the State Health Assurance Society, to aid high-cost procedures. Officials said the state has alrea...