IREC Rule No.605: Fee Entitlement For Medical Officers

605.  Fee Entitlement For Medical Officers:-

            The medical officer shall be entitled to charge the following fees as indicated below:

No fees for domiciliary visits shall be charged from employees drawing pay of less than Rs.1200 p.m.

[Authority: No.82/H/6-1/22, 25.05.1987]

Note: 

(a)    When more than one member of a railway employees family or dependent relative are to be examined at the residence, visiting fees may be charged for each separately.

(b)  When a railway medical officer is called upon to render assistance to a railway employee or a member of his family  or dependent relatives at an outstation, he may be granted traveling allowance as per rule when the medical service rendered is free. When, however, the medical officer is entitled to charge fees as provided above, he may claim travel allowance only if he deposits the fee received into the railway revenues. When preferring such claims for travel allowance, the medical officer should indicate the amount of fees received by  him and also certify on the bill that the fee received have already to the railway revenues.

(c)  No extra fees to be charged for conveyance except for very great distances where the decision of the Chief Medical Director is final.  No higher fees for night visit.

(d)  No railway employee shall be compelled to adopt any of the foregoing system of payment for medical attendance or to employ any railway medical officer for this purpose.

(e)  A railway employee may obtain services of a medical officer of a lower grade than that of the medical officer to whose services he is entitled, on payment of the scale of contract fees or fees by the visits fixed for the medical officer he chooses.

[Authority: Rule 330, 903(3), 921-929 and 931 R-I, Note below Rule 1453 of the IREM and No.62/H/1/20, 06.05.1964 and No.65/H/7/44, 07.10.1966]