The Employees State Insurance Corporation vide its notification dated 25th April 2022, has directed all the Regional Directors(RD) /Sub-Regional Officer (SRO) to settle the medical re-imbursement claim bills within 30 days from the receipt of the bill.
In order to expedite the process, financial power has been delegated to SRO of sub-regional offices, up to an amount of Rs. 50,000/-, so that bill can be scrutinized by medical referee and sanctioned by SRO I/C and paid at SRO level itself with timely electronic transfer of the reimbursement amount in the IP’s bank account.
Further while sanctioning the bill, RD/SRO (I/c) may need not to sign every page of the bill and may sign on the statement containing a list of bills with amount involved only.
Henceforth, the monitoring of settlement of medical reimbursement claim will be done by Regional Director/SRO (I/C) on fortnightly basis and submit the report to medical services at email id med2-hq@esic. nic.in.
