Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
57. Scale of medical benefit
(1) An insured person and (where such medical benefit is
extended to his family) his family shall be entitled to receive medical benefit
only of such kind and on such scale as may be provided by the State Government
or by the Corporation, and an insured person or, where such medical benefit is
extended to his family, his family shall not have a right to claim any medical
treatment except such as is provided by the dispensary, hospital, clinic or
other institution to which he or his family is allotted, or as may be provided
by the regulations.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall entitle an insured person and
(where such medical benefit is extended to his family) his family to claim
reimbursement from the Corporation of any expenses incurred in respect of any
medical treatment, except as may be provided by the regulations.