Chandigarh – The Punjab Government decided to enhance 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.
