Insurance now for heart surgery
Heart surgery is specifically covered by a medicalinsurance group for the first time under a proposal announced by the Medi-Care Society. The plan includes open-heart and other cardiac procedures previously available only under a generaloperation cover. The chairman of the Medicare Society, Mr Gerald Ryan, said the heart surgery done in private hospitals had traditionally been so expensive that it far exceeded the maximum benefits available for group-scheme members. The heart-surgery cover included single-valve, double-
valve and triple-valve operations, coronary vein grafts • : and other open-heart sur- 1 ' gery. It also covered pericar- • dietomy, pericardial drain-*' age, inserting or replacing;' pacemakers, and hearP : bypass surgery. -s - The benefit cover included! surgeons’ and anaesthetists’! costs, chest X-ray costs, bed! charges, intensive nursing! care, artificial valved pacemakers and leads, and! physiotherapy charges up to i a maximum value of $6lOO V People aged under 6Q< could enrol for the cover”' which would cease at age 65
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