National Insurance Act : regulations made by the Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as to the administration of medical benefit ... : (presented in pursuance of Sections 65, 82 and 83 of the National Insurance Act, 1911) / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed.

Date:
1912
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Credit: National Insurance Act : regulations made by the Joint Committee acting jointly with the Insurance Commissioners and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, as to the administration of medical benefit ... : (presented in pursuance of Sections 65, 82 and 83 of the National Insurance Act, 1911) / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Calculation of remunera- raon under combined system. Prac- titioner’s accounts to be rendered quarterly. Drug Fund. Regulations referred to as an “ attendance fee ”), calculated in accordance with the rate contained in his agreement with the Committee. (3.) The Committee shall ascertain the aggregate amounts so credited to the practitioner, and the aggregate amounts so credited to all practitioners on the panel, and shall pay to each practi- titioner an amount bearing the same proportion to the sum credited to him as the amount in the Panel Fund available for the purpose, after deducting any sum set apart for mileage in accordance with these Regulations, hears to the aggregate amounts so credited to all the practitioners. 41. Where the Committee have adopted a method of remunera- tion which combines a capitation system with a system of pay- ment by attendance (the capitation fees or the attendance fees, as the case may be, being payable in priority), the Committee shall pay to each practitioner out of the Panel Fund the fees credited to him which are payable in priority, and shall pay to each practitioner, out of the balance of the Panel Fund, in respect of other fees credited to him, an amount bearing the same pro- portion to those fees as the balance of the Panel Fund avail- able for the purpose bears to the aggregate amounts of such other fees credited to all the practitioners on the panel. 42. —(1.) Every practitioner on the panel shall on dates to be appointed by the Commissioners furnish to the Committee quarterly accounts in a form provided by the Committee, contain- ing such particulars as may be necessary for calculating the amount of remuneration payable to him by the Committee. (2.) As soon as may be after the receipt of an account the Committee shall pay to the practitioner such sum as may be agreed between the Committee and the practitioners on the panel in advance of the amount due to him, and shall pay the balance of the amount so due as soon as may be after the expiration of the year, but before payment of the balance the Committee shall submit all accounts to a committee appointed by the practitioners on the panel which committee shall have power to reduce or disallow any item of any account submitted to them. 43. —(1.) All moneys in the hands of the Committee for the purpose of defraying the cost of drugs and appliances supplied to persons on panel-lists (including any Parliamentary grant or por- tion of a Parliamentary grant paid to the Committee in respect of those persons for that purpose) shall be paid into, and all pay- ments to chemists and other persons supplying drugs or appliances in respect of that supply shall be made out of, a fund to be estab- lished by the Committee (in these Regulations referred to as the “ Drug Fund ”) and there shall be paid out of that fund to each chemist or other person supplying drugs or appliances an amount calculated in accordance with these Regulations. (2.) The Committee shall credit to each chemist or other person supplying drugs or appliances in respect of that supply a sum calculated in accordance with the Drug Tariff, or in the case of