Friday, October 14, 2011

Punjab hikes reimbursement to employees for replacement of knees and hip joint implant

by Punjabnewswire4u (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, OCT 14

The Punjab Government has enhanced the reimbursement charges to employees/pensioners and their dependent family members for replacement of  knees and hip joint implants.
    According to the notification issued now the employees would be eligible for reimbursement of Rs. 65000 per knee implant and Rs. 1,00,000 for revised knee implant.   He said that employees would be reimburse indoor charges ICU, Monitoring, Operation, charges of medicines, consumable and disposable surgical physiotherapy and laboratory test charges on the pattern of AIIMS New Delhi and PGI Chandigarh.
    The notification said that in the case of  Hip Joint Implant  the employees would be reimburse to Rs. 40,000+ Rs. 5000 for bone cement the normal Cement T.H.R .  The employees below 50 years would get Rs. 80,000 + other reimbursable charges for non-cement T.H.R  (Iso-Elastic) used for hip diseases. 


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