The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation vide notification dated 1st September 2022, has extended the medical benefit as laid down in the Regulation 95-A of the Employees’ State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950 and the Odisha Employees’ State Insurance (Medical Benefit) Rules, 1958 to the families of insured persons in the entire area of Kalahandi district in the State of Odisha, in addition to the already implemented area in the district.
As per regulation 95-A, The family of an insured person shall become entitled to medical benefit from the day the insured person himself becomes entitled to medical benefit and shall continue to be so entitled so long as the insured person is entitled to receive medical benefit for himself, or in the case of death of the insured person till such date upto which the insured person would have remained entitled to medical care, had he survived.
The nature and scale of medical benefit to which the family of an insured person shall be entitled shall be such as may be specified by the State Government in consultation with the Corporation from time to time.
