Bringing Health Insurance to India’s Urban Poor: Exploring the Contours of Collaborative Action – Agenda

Bringing Health Insurance to India’s Urban Poor: Exploring the Contours of Collaborative Action

22 August 2017
The Taj Mahal Hotel, Mansingh Road, New Delhi

Annotated Agenda

 

Registration and Tea    8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome Address
Welcome & Lighting of Lamp
Dr. Sanjeev Gaikwad (Abt Associates Inc)

Goals and Agenda of Meeting
Lysander Menezes Ph.D. (Health Finance and Governance Project)

Participants Present: Broad Profile
Dr. Sanjeev Gaikwad (Abt Associates Inc)		 9:00 – 9:15 am
Theme Address by Director for Health, USAID
Xerxes Sidhwa (USAID India Mission)
 9:15 – 10:15 am
Keynote Address
Sandeep Patel (Cigna TTK)		 10:15 – 10:30 am
Setting the Stage: Panel Discussion on Expansion of Health Care Services to the Urban Poor
Dr Allyala K. Nandakumar (USAID Washington DC)		 10:30 – 1:00 pm
Panel Chair: Introduction and Opening Remarks
Panelist:
Kaushik Sen (Healthspring)
Srinivasan (New India Assurance Co. Itd)
Mayank Bathwal (Aditya Birla Health Insurance Services)
Dr. Bob Fryatt (Health Finance and Governance)		 10:30 – 10:45 am
Panel Chair: Introduction and Opening Remarks
Dr. Allyala K. Nandakumar (USAID Washington DC)		 10:30 – 10:45 am
Panel and Interactive Audience Dialogue
Panelist:
Kaushik Sen (Healthspring)
Srinivasan (New India Assurance Co. Itd)
Mayank Bathwal (Aditya Birla Health Insurance Services)
Dr. Bob Fryatt (Health Finance and Governance)		 10:45 – 12:45 am
Summing-up
Dr. Allyala K. Nandakumar
  • Summarize the key observations of the panel discussion highlighting the key elements, central principles and major issues/ challenges that will need to be addressed.  Also, what are some of the opening thoughts on what the panel has suggested regarding what we have learned that could be applied to in the development and introduction of new generation insurance products for urban poor? Connect the discussion with the sessions that follow the panel discussion.

12:45 – 1:00 pm

Lunch Break                                                                                                                                  1:00 – 2:00 pmBeginning to Identify Opportunities & Companion Strategies
Moderators of Groups Discussions
Gautam Chakraborty (USAID India Mission)
LM Singh (PAHAL)
Neeta Rao (USAID India Mission)2:00 – 3:30 pmThree Parallel Groups (10 members each group) will discuss their respective perspectives, interests, and potential roles of key stakeholders in areas of developing collaborative arrangements, targeting and product design and coverage.
Group 1: Collaborative Arrangement

  • What existing collaborative arrangements can be leveraged as resources going forward?
  • What new collaborative arrangements opportunities should be explored and which groups should be involved? What are strategies scan to be used for forming those collaborative arrangements?
  • What do we see as the leadership role of key stakeholders in significantly contributing to significant effective collaboration among them?
  • What would be the key issues (institutional and system) in implementing these collaborations and which ones need to be given priority attention? What next steps could move this process forward?

Group II: Targeting Strategies

  • Who is the urban poor and how to target them? (What is the agreed upon definition of the urban poor to be targeted?)
  • What is role of aggregators in the process?
  • In what way the government can contribute to this process?
  • What may prove to be major challenges?
  • What lessons learned can be applied to those challenges?

Group III: Coverage and Product Design

  • What have been important lessons learned so far in addressing the coverage and product design for urban poor?
  • What are the approaches (including pilots) to explore this further?
  • What key issues will require attention in addressing the opportunities?
  • What are lessons learned that can be applied in addressing those opportunities?

Break
3:30 – 3:45 pmSummary Report Outs of Key Points
Lysander Menezes
3:45 – 4:45 pmNext Steps
Dr. Nandakumar

  • Listing of options (pilots, interventions etc.)
  • Introduction of the TWGHI and its role
  • Information on the next planned consultation meeting

4:45 – 5:00 pmClosing followed by High Tea
 Dr Sanjeev Gaikwad5:00 pm

Registration and Tea    8:30 – 09:00
Official Opening and Welcome Comments 09:30 – 09:45
Introductions 09:45 – 10:00
Panel Chair: Introduction and Opening Remarks

  • What options do we have to increase the financial protection by developing new generation insurance products for urban poor? What should be the shape and structure of collaborations between key stakeholders? Who to steer the process of developing and introducing new generation insurance products that could be made accessible to the urban poor?
 10:00 – 10:15
NITI Aayog

  • What does NITI Aayog view as the key issues related to addressing the OOP expenditure problem and the health protection of urban poor? What are suggestions for increased collaboration among the key stakeholders?
 10:15 – 10:45
IRDA

  • The recent insurance regulations of 2016 introduce the concept of “pilot products” aimed at encouraging innovations in the design for covering risks. What challenges can we foresee in addressing this concept? What should be key elements of a strategy to encourage insurers to collaborate in designing and implementing pilot products for urban poor?
 10:45 – 11:15
Break 11:15 – 11:45
Public Insurer

  • Being one of the largest public health insurers, what key opportunities do we see to expand the financial protection for the urban poor? What guidance would we offer to ensure the success of such initiatives? Is there a need for collaborations and how do we see these collaborations may be fostered?
 11:45 – 12:15
 HFG Director

  • Listening to all the views and based on the global experience HFG has, what are some important elements to consider in increasing the financial protection by developing new generation insurance products for urban poor? What major opportunities do we see? What challenges do we foresee? What steps might be taken to insure the necessary collaboration among key stakeholders?
 12:30 – 13:00
Summing-up

  • Summarize the key observations of the panel discussion highlighting the key elements, central principles and major issues/ challenges that will need to be addressed.  Also, what are some of the opening thoughts on what the panel has suggested regarding what we have learned that could be applied to in the development and introduction of new generation insurance products for urban poor? Connect the discussion with the sessions that follow the panel discussion.
 13:00 – 13:15
Lunch Break 13:15
Beginning to Identify Opportunities & Companion Strategies 14:15 – 15:30
Three Parallel Groups (10 members each group) will discuss their respective perspectives, interests, and potential roles of key stakeholders in areas of developing collaborative arrangements, targeting and product design and coverage.
Group 1: Collaborative Arrangement

  • What existing collaborative arrangements can be leveraged as resources going forward?
  • What new collaborative arrangements opportunities should be explored and which groups should be involved? What are strategies scan to be used for forming those collaborative arrangements?
  • What do we see as the leadership role of key stakeholders in significantly contributing to significant effective collaboration among them?
  • What would be the key issues (institutional and system) in implementing these collaborations and which ones need to be given priority attention? What next steps could move this process forward?

Group II: Targeting Strategies

  • Who is the urban poor and how to target them? (What is the agreed upon definition of the urban poor to be targeted?)
  • What is role of aggregators in the process?
  • In what way the government can contribute to this process?
  • What may prove to be major challenges?
  • What lessons learned can be applied to those challenges?

Group III: Coverage and Product Design

  • What have been important lessons learned so far in addressing the coverage and product design for urban poor?
  • What are the approaches (including pilots) to explore this further?
  • What key issues will require attention in addressing the opportunities?
  • What are lessons learned that can be applied in addressing those opportunities?
Break  15:30 – 15:45
Summary Report Outs of Key Points 15:45 – 16:45
Next Steps

  • Listing of options (pilots, interventions etc.)
  • Introduction of the TWGHI and its role
  • Information on the next planned consultation meeting
 16:45 – 17:00
Closing followed by High Tea     17:00

 

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