Central govt employees, pensioners alert! CGHS Card rules revised – Check new rates, eligibility

financialexpress.com:

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued fresh guidelines for the issuance of CGHS Card to serving government employees and pensioners, according to an Office Memorandum (OM) issued on June 27. The revised guidelines have been issued in view of technological changes and changes in payment methods of contribution for the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the OM further said.

Under the CGHS scheme, the Centre is providing comprehensive medical care to the government employees and pensioners enrolled under the scheme. Presently, approximately 42 lakh beneficiaries are covered under CGHS in 80 cities all over India and endeavor is to include more cities to improve the accessibility of the services.

All central government employees and their dependent family members residing in CGHS-covered areas are beneficiaries of this card.

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“Serving employees will need to mandatorily apply for a new CGHS card online (www.cghs.nic.in) to generate a temporary reference number. After online submission of the application form, they should take a printout of the same and submit the hard copy duly signed and photographs affixed thereon, to the department currently employed, for processing and onward submission to the concerned Office of Additional Director, CGHS for issuing the cards,” according to the Office Memorandum of the health ministry.

It further said that one copy is to be forwarded to the Additional Director of the concerned city and the other copy is to be retained by the Employer Department of the Central Government (hereinafter referred to as ‘sponsoring authority’) for CGHS benefits.

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