Governor is pleased to appoint West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC), as the arbitrator hereafter under WBHS for resolving disputes regarding West Bengal Health Scheme.
Inclusion of State Govt. pensioner/ family pensioner and retired member of AIS of the State Cadre who are parent of government employee, as dependent beneficiary under their in-service son/daughter in WBHS.
Governor is now pleased to revise the existing rate list for Tata Medical Center, Rajarhat only, for treatment of the beneficiaries under West Bengal Health Scheme.
Acceptability of online purchase for medicine and mandatory submission of Cash Memo/ Tax Invoice from GST registered pharmaceutical shops in case of offline purchase of medicine.
Governor is now pleased to extend the last date for incorporation of the Aadhaar No. for the employees/ pensioners along with their beneficiaries above the age of five years up to 31.03.2023.
An amount of Rs. 8500/- for parent and Rs. 5000/- for other members of the family has been fixed as the maximum ceiling of gross income/ earning for becoming the dependent beneficiary under the Scheme.
If patient has a history of cardiac surgery like of Bypass Surgery, AICD, Valve Replacement or Implantation of Stent through Angioplasty or Implantation of Pacemaker, will get lifelong reimbursement of the cost.
Governor is now pleased to enhance the ceiling of cashless limit of each IPD treatment in private empanelled hospital up to Rs. 1,50,000/- only from the existing ceiling of Rs. 1,00,000/-.
Governor is pleased to introduce the online processing of medical advance claim through WBHS Portal with the following guidelines, new set of Forms and Pro-forma Estimate from the Hospital for processing and settlement of the claim:
Considering the gravity of the disease/illness named ‘Covid-19’ the West Bengal Health Scheme Authority (WBHSA) has agreed to include the same as 17th (seventeenth) disease/ illness in the OPD List of WBHS.