The cost of surgeries was obtained from costing of surgeries
done by Haryana Health Department for the Surgery Package
Scheme [26]. This was scaled down by 50% since this was the
actual cost incurred by hospitals on respective surgeries [26]. Cost
of care was reduced by a factor of 50%, based on consultation with
the experts who had estimated the package rates for Haryana
Government as to make it representative of the actual price of care
to the hospital.