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Haryana unveils new reimbursement policy

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It has wider scope and is more liberal for employees, pensioners and their dependents, says Health Minister

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Health Department on Sunday unveiled its new reimbursement policy, which the Health Minister, Kartar Devi, claimed has wider scope and is more liberal for employees, pensioners and their dependents.

The Minister said in Chandigarh that full reimbursement would be allowed for treatment in all Government hospitals in the State, the PGIMER, Chandigarh, the General Hospital, Chandigarh, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Full reimbursement would also be allowed for treatment in all Government hospitals even outside the State provided the claimant produced a certificate from the Medical Superintendent or Head of the Institution declaring it as a Government- run hospital or institution.

Full reimbursement would also be allowed for treatment in all Government Medical Colleges, located in the country, provided the claimant produced a certificate duly signed by the Medical Superintendent declaring that it was a Government-run Medical College and hospital.

She said that one of the significant salient features of the new policy was that in case of kidney donors, reimbursement of expenditure for operating upon the donor would be permissible only if the treatment had been taken in a Government or approved hospital, as it was a planned procedure. Now the reimbursement of the expenditure incurred on the purchase of medicines for seven days after discharge from hospitals would also be allowed. In case laboratory tests and investigations for indoor patients or those suffering from chronic diseases were not available in the Government hospitals within the State and outside the State, the reimbursement would be allowed equal to the rates of the PGIMER, Chandigarh, after obtaining the non- availability certificate. The reimbursement of the expenditure incurred for treatment in any of the non-Government hospitals, out of the 20 hospitals approved by the Government in 1986, and also for the non-Government hospitals, out of seven hospitals approved by the Government in 2003, would be made at the rate equal to that of the PGIMER, Chandigarh. For by pass coronary surgery, the 27 hospitals included Southern Railway Headquarter Hospital, Perembur (Chennai), K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, Kasturba Hospital, Mumbai, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Apollo Hospital, Chennai. In case of blood cancer, the hospitals would include Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and Cancer Institute,Adayar,Chennai. In case of complicated heart surgery cases, the hospitals would include Southern Railway Hospital, Perembur (Chennai), Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vallore, K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, S.S.K.M. Hospital, Kolkatta, Kasturba Hospital, Bhopal, Samaritan Hospital, Alwaye (Kerala) and N.M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology, Pune. Similarly, in case of kidney transplant, the approved hospital was Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore.

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