MEDICAL BENEFITS
SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS
PAYMENT TO LODGES.
STATEMENT BY MINISTER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
OAMARU, June 30.
Details of the arrangements to imiplement the promise to pay friendly societies the amount members had paid in respect of medical care were made available today by the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer. He said that the procedure had been arranged after consultation with representatives of friendly societies. Payments from the Social Security Fund will be made in respect of medical services afforded under lodge agreements in operation at May 1 this year. The amount payable is not to exceed either the amount payable if members and dependants are provided with medical benefits under the ordinary social security scheme or the sums actually payable by the lodge to the medical practitioner affording the service. Where the 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. Payment to lodges will be made quarterly. Where a lodge’s quarter ended in May, payment will be for one month, and thereafter quarterly. Where the quarter ended in June, it will be for two months, 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.
To ensure that there is no double payment, it will be necessary for lodges to send 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 and could secure free medical attention apart from lodge membership that lodge members retain membership to obtain the other privileges and advantages lodge membership entails.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 3
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