Table 2 Incremental costs (in INR and USD) of ReMiND intervention in Uttar Pradesh state, India
Incremental costs of m-health program (2015) | Base value | Lower limit | Upper limit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
INR | USD | INR | USD | INR | USD | |
Startup costs (mHealth) | ||||||
 Development of software | 17,495,229 | 276,168 | 8,747,615 | 138,084 | 20,994,275 | 331,401 |
 Training of ASHAs | 1,826,036,757 | 28,824,574 | 913,018,378 | 14,412,287 | 2,191,244,108 | 34,589,489 |
 Equipments | 244,654,336 | 3,861,947 | 122,327,168 | 1,930,973 | 293,585,203 | 4,634,336 |
 Purchase of mobile phones | 1,618,284,035 | 25,545,131 | 809,142,018 | 12,772,565 | 1,941,940,842 | 30,654,157 |
 Programmatic expenses | 98,490,876 | 1,554,710 | 49,245,438 | 777,355 | 118,189,051 | 1,865,652 |
 Overheads | 199,921 | 3156 | 99,960 | 1578 | 239,905 | 3787 |
 Administrative costs | 1,361,328,050 | 21,488,998 | 680,664,025 | 10,744,499 | 1,633,593,660 | 25,786,798 |
 Total | 5,166,489,205 | 81,554,684 | 2,583,244,602 | 40,777,342 | 6,199,787,046 | 97,865,620 |
 Implementation costs (mHealth) | 43,130,264,882 | 680,825,018 | 21,565,132,441 | 340,412,509 | 51,756,317,858 | 816,990,021 |
Health system incremental costs (with mHealth) | ||||||
 Monitoring and evaluation | 2,178,513,501 | 34,388,532 | 1,089,256,751 | 17,194,266 | 2,614,216,201 | 41,266,238 |
Preventive services | ||||||
 Antenatal care | 1,000,908,828 | 15,799,666 | 869,360,811 | 13,723,138 | 1,180,119,171 | 18,628,558 |
 Institutional delivery | 10,462,218,682 | 165,149,466 | 6,035,895,393 | 95,278,538 | 16,710,488,173 | 263,780,397 |
Curative services | ||||||
 Curative care for mothers: OPD | 109,167,717 | 1,723,247 | 52,210,647 | 824,162 | 272,919,293 | 4,308,118 |
 Curative care for mothers: IPD | 97,857,094 | 1,544,706 | 54,078,920 | 853,653 | 178,899,733 | 2,823,989 |
 Curative care for neonates: OPD | 3,828,183 | 60,429 | 2,734,416 | 43,164 | 30,156,706 | 476,033 |
 Curative care for neonates: IPD | 3,655,308 | 57,700 | 643,294 | 10,155 | 11,305,025 | 178,453 |
Total (health system) | 62,152,903,400 | 981,103,448 | 32,252,557,276 | 509,116,926 | 78,954,209,206 | 1,246,317,430 |
Incremental out of pocket expenditures (with mHealth) | ||||||
 ANC | − 1,033,319,209 | − 16,311,274 | − 1,345,597,054 | − 21,240,680 | − 697,526,728 | − 11,010,682 |
 Institutional delivery | − 89,638,635,385 | − 1,414,974,513 | − 116,728,192,568 | − 1,842,591,832 | − 60,509,224,497 | − 955,157,451 |
 Postpartum care | 1,392,533,772 | 21,981,591 | 1,813,369,309 | 28,624,614 | 940,009,163 | 14,838,345 |
 Pediatrics: OPD | 203,844,023 | 3,217,743 | 265,447,419 | 4,190,172 | 137,601,869 | 2,172,089 |
 Pediatrics: IPD | 9,438,499 | 148,990 | 12,290,894 | 194,016 | 6,371,318 | 100,573 |
Total (out of pocket expenditures) | − 89,066,138,301 | − 1,405,937,463 | − 115,982,682,000 | − 1,830,823,710 | − 60,122,768,874 | − 949,057,125 |
Grand total | − 26,913,234,901 | − 424,834,016 | − 59,581,747,680 | − 940,516,933 | 76,787,545,236 | 1,212,115,947 |