MEDICAL BENEFITS
OVER 15,000 WARRANTS POSITION (0.C.) WELLINGTON, this day. During the from: November- I—when the medical benefits scheme came *into operation— to - March 31, payment warrants issued!by the Department of Health in respect of claims accepted for medical practitioner attention .totalled 15,025 in the Wellington ■Health'District.This mainly involves [refunds of fees extent of 7/6 (for single #visits J .and. does, not take :into account specialist fees paid for iby■ private arrangements j. : Large . numbers of the forms of for.'refunds have had to fbe?sentback lio those submitting jthem ~-v because of irregularities in !filiing4in, or not 3 ?filling them in at all. This,-*: apparently -is because people have failed' to familiarise themselves with the requirements of the medical :• benefits legislation. Though- ar. special staff deals with the applications for refunds, it has experienced difficulty in keeping up with r the .work, despite working a considerable amount of overtime.
The Wellington Central Health District includes the "VVairarapa area, its territory extending as far as Eketahuna in one direction and nearly: to s.Qtaki: inAihe - other.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 8
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