Ambala: With the efforts of Haryana AYUSH Minister. Anil Vij, the AYUSH Medical Reimbursement Policy has been approved in Haryana, under which the state government employees, pensioners and their dependents will be able to get treatment and reimbursement of medicines through AYUSH system.This was stated by the doctors of National Integrated Medical Association (NIMA) to the AYUSH Minister Anil Vij, who reached Ambala Cantonment from various districts of the state on Sunday.
The office bearers of the association whilke talking to media persons at Health Minister’s Ambala camp office said that under the visionary vision of AYUSH Minister Anil Vij, this policy will benefit the employees and along with this the AYUSH system will also be promoted. He expressed heartfelt thanks to Minister for passing this proposal in the cabinet meeting. They said Anil Vij has strongly promoted the country’s AYUSH system of medicine during his tenure and today the world’s first AYUSH University is being established in Haryana. At the same time, AYUSH Minister Vij said that Ayurveda is our ancient science and work is being done to promote it so that we can get its full benefits.
On this occasion, President of National Integrated Medical Association Dr. Aditya Garg, Dr. KC Sharma, Dr. Gulshan Rai Sharma, Dr. Dinesh Agarwal, Dr. N Sharma, Dr. Sudhir Gupta, Dr. Adarsh Agarwal, Dr. Anil Loginya, Dr. Anil Dureja, Dr. Ved Prakash, Dr. Trehan, Dr. Manoj Sharma, Dr. Pramod Mittal, Dr. Subhash Mittal were also present. The government employees, pensioners and their dependents, the Haryana Government has drafted the Ayush Medical Reimbursement Policy. The Policy also aims to uplift AYUSH System through its reach to all Haryana Government beneficiaries. As the vast majority of these beneficiaries are getting themselves treated under the AYUSH System of Medicine but due to no empanelled AYUSH Hospitals they were facing difficulty in getting their bills reimbursed. In view of the difficulties, AYUSH Medical Reimbursement Policy is drafted.
As per the Policy, all Government AYUSH Institutions, Private AYUSH Hospitals having NABH certificates and Entry level NABH certificates will get empanelled under this policy. This will give a boost to AYUSH private Practitioners as they can get their hospitals empanelled. The Haryana Government employees, Pensioners and their dependents can avail the benefit of getting their illness treated through Indoor admission in AYUSH empanelled Hospitals under the State Government.
Chronic disease Patients who were getting their outdoor charges reimbursed through Allopathy will now get an opportunity of getting themselves treated for the same disease through the AYUSH System and their charges reimbursed. Few Yoga and Naturopathy procedures will also be reimbursed during outdoor treatment of chronic disease patients since there are no medicines prescribed for outdoor patients while getting treatment in yoga and naturopathy hospitals.
According to information, the Fixed Package rates have been defined in all streams of Ayush i.e Ayurveda (96 packages), Yoga (27 packages) and Naturopathy (30 packages), Unani (85 packages) and Sidha (49 packages). The Private Hospitals empanelled under this policy will charge the fixed package rates from employees which later on will be reimbursed after the submission of bills to their concerned department. These fixed packages rates can be availed pre-diagnosed conditions/disease conditions which require hospitalization are mentioned in Ayurveda (20 diseases), Unani (50 diseases), Sidha (27 diseases), Naturopathy (8 diseases) and YOGA (8 diseases).
Information also reveals that the room rent has also been fixed as per the basic salary of the employee, which will be charged by the concerned Hospital as per entitlement and will be fully reimbursable. Non-Package treatment during Indoor admission through Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathy in these empanelled Private Hospitals will also be reimbursed at par with room rent entitlement, Lab. rates and Cost of medicines given during Admission.The Reimbursable list of Medicines is also drafted under this policy which will be fully reimbursable during indoor admission in Private AYUSH Empanelled Hospitals.