MEDICAL BENEFITS
PAYMENTS TO FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ARRANGEMENT ANNOUNCED BY MINISTER. TAKING EFFECT FROM MAY 1. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) OAMARU, This Day. Details of the arrangements to implement the promise to pay friendly societies the amount their members had paid in respect to medical care were made available today by the Minister of Health (Mr Nordmeyer). He said the procedure had been finalised after consultation with the representatives of friendly societies.
Payments from the Social Security Fund will be made respecting medical services afforded under lodge agreements in operation at May 1 this year, the amount payable not to exceed either the amount payable if members and dependants are jjjovided with medical benefits under the ordinary Social Security scheme or the sums actually payable by the lodge to a medical practitioner affording service. Where contributions of members are not wholly available for the remuneration of doctors, but are available also for the payment of administration or other charges, the rate of contribution for the purpose of computing payment from the Social Security fund will be determined by the Minister. Payments to lodges will be made quarterly. Where a lodge's quarter ended in May, the payment will be for one) month, and thereafter quarterly. Where the quarter ended in June, the payment will be for two months and thereafter quarterly. No payment will be made in respect of any member entitled to medical benefits under the ordinary Social Security scheme who is in an area where special arrangements have been made for the provision of medical services . In order to ensure that there snail be no double payment, it is necessary that lodges should send to the Department a complete list of members and their dependants.
The Minister emphasised that it was desirable in districts where lodge members had an alternative service available and could secure free medical attention apart from lodge membership, that lodge members should retain their membership in order to obtain the other privileges and advantages lodge membership entails.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1941, Page 6
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