MEDICAL FEES AT ASSURANCE OFFICES.

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men

Medical Examiners and Coroners ’ Offices , 2004

About 2,000 medical examiners and coroners' (ME/C) offices provided death investigation services across the United States in 2004. These offices were responsible for the medicolegal investigation of death. They may conduct death scene investigations, perform autopsies, and determine the cause and manner of death when a person has died as a result of violence, under suspicious circumstances, wit...

Medical Fees in the Colonial Period *

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...

The Government Regulation of Medical Fees

.we give below) is in every way preferable. The matter of fees will now be left to the discretion of the sympathetic head of the Medical Department rather than communicated through lay channels, a method in many obvious ways objectionable. Medical men in the service of the Government of India should be grateful to the Director-General for having effected this change, and we hope the time is not...