Medical insurance fees

Lowering of Insurance Fees

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?It has come to my knowledge that some of the Insurance Companies are paying only Rs. 5 for examination of cases when, as a matter of fact, the legal fee for the same, as allowed by majority of Companies is Rs. 6 or Rs. 8 per case up to Rs. 2,000. Therefore I would request my fejlow practitioners to charge not less than Rs. 6 for each case. If the C...

Demands of Medical Fees from Medical Men

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...

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...