ECHS - SUBMISSION OF MEDICAL CLAIMS ON LINE - PROCEDURE

 REIMBURSEMENT MODULE SELF LOGIN AND UPLOAD OF INDIVIDUAL REIMBURSEMENT CLAIM

                    (BASED ON ECHS LETTER NO - B/49769/AG/ECHS DT 23AUG 2021)

        The provision for individual online bill processing by the ECHS beneficiaries on  Reimbursement Claims for OPD, IPD and pharmacy is now been made possible by Central Organisation of the ECHS. The claims can now be uploaded on the website of the Bill Processing Agency by opening the web site https://www.echsbpa.utiitsl.com/echs . 

        This will ease the procedure by empowering the beneficiaries to upload their claims themselves on line.

MEDICAL FACILITIES FOR SSC AND EC OFFRS IN ECHS

Medical facilities to non-pensioners of the military: Historic day for Short Service Commissioned Officers, Emergency Commissioned Officers, World War II veterans and pre-mature retirees

The Cabinet has today extended the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) to the above categories of non-pensioners of the military.
Non-pensioner ‘ex-servicemen’ were initially granted medical facilities in Military Hospitals in 1970 but the same were discretionary. Later, ‘pension’ was made mandatory to avail such facilities. Again in 1997, the term ‘ex-pensioners’ was replaced by ‘ex-servicemen’ thereby restoring the facilities to non-pensioners having ‘ex-servicemen’ status such as Short Service Commissioned Officers and Emergency Commissioned Officers (SSCOs and ECOs) who were made entitled to Outpatient (OPD) facilities. However, in the late 2000s, the facilities were withdrawn by the office of the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) despite stiff resistance by the Army HQ.