{"id":37449,"date":"2026-05-11T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=37449"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:43:06","slug":"article70959729-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=37449","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-pocket expenditure for patients lowest in Tamil Nadu\u2019s public health facilities, finds survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the expenditure in private hospitals was higher in both urban and rural areas, placing the State among those with the highest OOPME levels for private hospitalisation, according to the National Sample Survey\u2019s \u201cHousehold Social Consumption: Health\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/out-of-pocket-expenditure-for-patients-lowest-in-tamil-nadus-public-health-facilities-finds-survey\/article70959729.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, the expenditure in private hospitals was higher in both urban and rural areas, placing the State among those with the highest OOPME levels for private hospitalisation, according to the National Sample Survey\u2019s \u201cHousehold Social Consumption: Health\u201d Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[26405,15753,10665,1775,24148,17453,17749,12856,13495,11551,9125],"class_list":["post-37449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-expenditure","tag-facilities","tag-finds","tag-health","tag-lowest","tag-nadus","tag-outofpocket","tag-patients","tag-public","tag-survey","tag-tamil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37451,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37449\/revisions\/37451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}