User:MickGarner/Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme

Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS) is an insurance scheme provided by the Government of Tamil Nadu to ration card holders in Tamil Nadu. The scheme provides coverage of upto Rs 5 lakhs for treatment of 51 life-threatening conditions, in both government and private hospitals. Since June 2020, the treatment of COVID-19 has also been included under this scheme.

History
On July 23, 2009, the Government of Tamil Nadu introduced a new insurance scheme called the Kalaignar Kapitu Thittam where the Government of Tamil Nadu provided 517 crores of rupees per year to the private insurance company as an insurance installment (premium) amount for one crore poor families. In July 2011, the scheme was upgraded and renamed as Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. On September 11, 2018, Central and State Governments shared the installments in connection with the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana scheme of the Government of India.