Spine or spinal cord: Operation with removal of portion of vertebra or vertebrae (coccyx The benefits of the medical and surgical plan are available for care received in any hospital registered with the American Medical Association. See the enclosed list of "member hospitals" in which the guaranteed service benefits of the hospital service plan are provided. The common-sense, American way to pay for health care. THE HOSPITAL SERVICE PLAN MEMBER HOSPITAL BENEFITS 1. Room accommodations: An allowance of up to $5 per day for member, excepting obstretical cases, and up to $4 per day for dependents, sponsored dependents, and all obstetrical cases. 2. Meals, including special diets and infant feedings. 3. General nursing service. 4. Anesthetics and anesthesia up to $10 each admission. 5. X-ray examinations, up to $15 each admission. 6. All drugs and medicines, except blood and plasma. 7. Emergency Room Service (see below). 8. All delivery and nursery room service (10 days). 9. Operating room-No limit. 10. Laboratory examinations-No limit. 11. Dressings-No limit. 12. Plaster casts-No limit. 13. Use of Cystoscopic room-No limit. 14. Use of cardiographic equipment-No limit. 15. Basal metabolism examinations-No limit. 16. Use of physiotherapeutic equipment-No limit. 17. Oxygen therapy-No limit. Maternity care.-Maternity care, including any condition of pregnancy, is available under membership agreements effective and including a husband and wife for a continuous period of not less than 1 year next preceding the date of such care. Maternity care is limited to a total of 10 days during any contract year or period of pregnancy. Emergency room service.—Accident cases not requiring bed care may receive all emergency room service required within 24 hours after the accident, not including laboratory, X-ray, and physiotherapy procedures. All illnesses covered.-All illnesses for which members receive care in any registered hospital are covered. No exclusions on illnesses not common to both sexes. Women members pay same rate and receive same benefits as men, except for obstetrical care which is provided on dependent coverage basis. 30 DAYS PLUS The benefits listed for both member and nonmember hospitals are available to each person for 30 days, and one-half the benefits are available for an additional 90 days in each contract year. Exception.-Maternity care is limited to 10 days. FAMILY SERVICE Benefits for dependents are identical with those for members, except room allowance. BENEFITS IN CTHER HOSPITALS The cash allowance for services in nonmember hospitals is $6 per patient day for members for all care except maternity, and $5 per patient day for dependents. sponsored dependents, and maternity cases. This allowance in maternity cases is limited to 10 days in each contract year. Reciprocity services.-When through agreements between this plan and other Blue Cross plans, member hospital benefits of other plans are available, any person entitled to and receiving care under this plan may elect to receive member hospitals benefits of another Blue Cross plan instead of the cash allowance for services in nonmember hospitals. This plan has such an agreement with the majority of the Blue Cross plans. Enrollment is open only to members of employed groups, plus the following members of the employee's family: Dependents.-Wife or husband and all unmarried children between the ages of 30 days and 18 years. Sponsored dependents.-Unmarried children between the ages of 19 and 25 NOTE.-Mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters are not eligible either as depend ents or sponsored dependents of the employee. No medical examination is necessary-just the word of a Texas worker that be or she knows of no need for hospital care. SERVICES NOT INCLUDED The benefits of the plan are not available for: A. Obstetrical (maternity) care for individual members unless such members apply for and pay the monthly rate applicable to a family group comprised of a member and one or more dependents. B. Any medical or surgical treatment of any nature received or rendered through or in Veterans' Administration facilities; any services rendered under any other present or future laws enacted by the Congress of the United States or by the legislature of any State, including workmen's compensation; or any services that are available to the patient under any other nonprofit hospital service piss C. Hospital admission solely for X-ray, laboratory, electrocardiographic and basal metabolism examinations, or physical therapy not incidental to necessary hospital bed care otherwise required at the time of admission. D. Care in a health resort or rest home. E. Provision of special braces, appliances, apparatus, and radium treatments F. Treatment for physical conditions existing at the time the patient became s subscriber of the plan. G. Plastic surgery for conditions existing before the effective date of the agreement. H. Any care unless, on the effective date of this agreement, the member was an employee of the employer or a member of the group through which the application For this agreement was made. I. Services in ambulatory (out-patient) cases, (except emergency room service s herein outlined). OFFICERS E. H. Cary, M. D., president; president, Southwestern Medical Foundation, Dallas. L. N. Markham, M. D., vice president; Markham Hospital, Longview. J. Howard Payne, treasurer; postmaster, Dallas. Walter R. McBee, executive director Philip H. Overton, general counsel. OFFICES Home office: 2022 Bryan Street, Dallas, Riverside 9508. Area offices: Abilene: 310 Citizens National Bank Building. Austin: 514 Capitol National Bank Building. Fort Worth: 609 Commercial Standard Building. San Angelo: 511 San Angelo National Bank Building. Tyler. Waco 810 Professional Building. Wichita Falls: 716 Staley Building. DIRECTORS has. F. Ashcroft, president, Sulphur Spring State Bank, Sulfur Springs. ohn H. Burleson, M. D., past president, State Medical Association of Texas, San Antonio. Carl M. Collier, superintendent, Hendrick Memorial Hospital, Abilene. I. F. Connally, M. D., president, State Medical Association of Texas, Waco. . Chas. Dickson, M. D., Houston. eorge R. Enloe, Fort Worth. . Anderson Fitzgerald, Ph. D., dean, School of Business Administration, University of Texas, Austin. Irs. Alfreda P. Hassel, superintendent, Medical and Surgical Memorial Hospital, San Antonio. larry G. Hatch, superintendent, Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo. J. Hollingsworth, superintendent, West Texas Hospital, Lubbock. ayne J. Holmes, administrator, Wichita Clinic Hospital, Wichita Falls. 7. E. Justin, H. J. Justin & Sons, Fort Worth. hauncey D. Leake, Ph. D., dean, Medical Branch University of Texas, Galveston. T. McIntyre, M. D., San Angelo. . J. Norrell, secretary, Magnolia Petroleum Co., Dallas. E. Pickett, M. D., Carrizo Springs. rs. Josie Roberts, superintendent, Methodist Hospital, Houston. . A. Rowley, M. D., Amarillo. en Taub, J. N. Taub & Sons, Houston. ol Terrell, president, Texas Hospital Association, Fort Worth. ister Mary Vincent, superintendent, Providence Hospital, Waco. va M. Wallace, administrator, All Saints Episcopal Hospital, Fort Worth. |