CGHS Big Change: The government has made a big change in the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), a health scheme for central employees. Under this, changes have been made in the old package rates. This step of the government is expected to provide relief to about 46 lakh CGHS beneficiaries as well as private hospitals.

What is the new change?

Actually, the government has released new rates of 2,000 medical packages, which will be applicable from October 13. Earlier, for a long time, CGHS beneficiaries had been complaining that they were not able to get cashless treatment from hospitals. For this, one has to bear huge treatment expenses from one’s own pocket and also have to wait for months for the refund.

Private hospitals say that the current fixed rates in the package are outdated and are not sufficient to meet the medical treatment expenses as of today. With the increase in the package rate, the patient will no longer have to pay for the treatment himself and will also get the facility of cashless treatment. However, the government says that the new rates will change depending on the quality of the hospitals, category of cities, type of hospital and ward of the patient.

Big step taken after 2014

The last major change in CGHS package rate was in 2014. Meanwhile, small things were changed, but even after more than 10 years had passed, no comprehensive reforms were implemented. In August this year, the Central Government Employees Union (GENC) submitted a memorandum to the government.

It was said that lack of cashless treatment facility is causing financial crisis for employees and pensioners, especially in case of medical emergency. After this, the government took this important decision. CGHS 2000 medical package is not a single package, but it includes about 2,000 types of medical treatments under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS). Since the old rates were not sufficient as per today’s treatment, private hospitals were reluctant to give cashless payment to the patients.

Did anything new change?

The new rates of Rs 2,000 medical package are based on the quality of the hospitals like city category (Tier-I, Tier-II, Tier-III) and NABH accreditation.

• Package rates in Tier-II cities will be 19 percent less than the base rate.
• Rates in Tier-III cities will be 20 percent less than the base rate.
• NABH accredited hospitals will provide services at base rate.
• Non-NABH hospitals will get 15 percent less rate than the base rate.
• Super-specialty hospitals with more than 200 beds will get 15 percent higher rates.

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5 big changes in cgs scheme: Health is a very important aspect for everyone. Therefore, many people carry health insurance in time so that financial pressure can be avoided in sudden diseases or medical emergency. However, people who are in government jobs. They usually do not need to take separate insurance. The central government runs separate health schemes for them.

Through which he and his family get medical facilities. Recently, the government has made 5 major changes in its main health plan Central Government Health Scheme i.e. CGHS. The purpose of these changes is to make the treatment process much easier, faster and digital. Now patients will not have to face problems like installing long lines in the hospital, showing repeated documents or taking slip. Learn what changes have been made.

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Mobile app will be able to treat

The Ministry of Health has launched a new mobile app for the CGHS scheme. Due to which CGHS beneficiaries can now book an appointment from a doctor from home. They will not have to put a line in OPD. Digital slip and report will be found only on the app. CGHS card can also be downloaded digitally now. Please tell this app is completely free. Through this, registration or renewal fees can also be paid online.

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Unique ID will be linked to PAN card

Now every beneficiary will be given unique ID link to a PAN card. Due to which the medical record of the whole family will be in one place. This will reduce the fraud. With this, there will be no need to show the document again and again. During the renewal, the hassle of giving old records to the beneficiaries will also end.

Relief in referral rules

Now pensioners of 70 years or older will not need referral to see a specialist doctor. Earlier this age limit was 75 years. So at the same time, the referral in private hospitals will now be valid for 3 months. Due to which the patients will not have to repeatedly repeat the process.

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Medical devices will get online approval

Apart from this, online application and approval facility for essential machines like oxygen concentrator has started. Earlier this process used to go to the wellness center. Whose approval used to take 20 days. But now you can get approval in just 5 days.

Update will be available on messages and emails

Every process related to CGHS like application, approval, payment will now be available through SMS and email. There will be no need to go to office or call again and again. However, for this you will have to go to the HMIS portal and registrate one time and avoid the facility of mobile and email alert.

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Central Government Health Scheme: Health is a very important aspect of the lives of all people. When suddenly in life, which health emergency comes, cannot be said. Therefore, people go ready to avoid such uncertainty. In today’s era, most people carry health insurance. So that they do not face any kind of trouble in future.

People who work under the Government of India in the country. The Government of India gives benefits of health facilities to such people. For this, the Central Government Health Scheme i.e. CGHS scheme is run by the government. Under which millions of central employees and pensioners of the country get benefit. There are some changes in this scheme from the government. Let us tell you how much employees will benefit from them.

There will be changes in Central Government Health Scheme

Through the Central Government Health Scheme, around 1 crore central employees and pension holders are benefited in the country. In the year 1954, this scheme was started by the Government of India, which now provides facilities in more than 80 cities of the country. Through this scheme, cashless treatment is provided in Immunal Hospitals. Which includes 1500 government and private hospitals and dispensaries in the country. Cheap medicines are also available in the CGHS scheme.

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Recently, big news related to this scheme has come. Large scale changes can be made by the government in this scheme. Which includes facilities such as staff shortage, availability of medicines and connecting private hospitals for subsidized treatment. If this happens, millions of central employees will benefit greatly for pensioners.

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These changes can happen

Talking in these changes, new waliness centers can be opened under the CGHS scheme. These include cities like Pune, Bengaluru, Nagpur, Balasore, Chennai, Puducherry and Jammu. Apart from these wellness centers, the process of recruitment through staff selection commission is also going to be started to overcome the shortage of staff in the rest of the wellness centers of the country. It has been seen many times that pension is delayed in getting medical refund claim to the enjoyment. This problem will also be cured now.

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