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V a \ ika,- v'i'!■ ’ v- TUI CL09TOH CHROKlci® \ CBntMk» S. €h Thtifsday, Jwiuary 19,199f — Older people in the Clinton area who have paid doctor Mils but have not yet claimed the^r medicare doctor bill in* suifaice payments are invited toJhave their claims checked by\ the Greenwood social se curity office before mailing them to the medicare carrier, according to Miss Martha F. Pressly, District Manager., “In the first six months of the medicare program some medicare payments were de layed because the people did not "include all the necessary information with their claims,” she said. Miss Pressly believes that most people will need this help only the first time they make a medical insurance claim- ‘‘The Medicare Handbook, which is given to all benefi ciaries, explains how to make the claims,” she said, “and the form is fairly simple ,but most people can use some help the first time they apply. We’re glad to offer assistance, and we believe we can help many people to avoid delay in their payment.” f Miss Pressly noted that the medicare claim may be made either by the patient or by the doctor, if he accepts assign ment of the insurance. If the doctor applies for the medi care payment, he bills the pa tient only for any part of the $50 deductible that still re mains to be paid and for 20 percent of the bill over the $50 deductible. -• ter whether the payment is to go to the patient or to the doctor. Doctors’ offices, ac customed to filling out in surance forms, should have no trouble providing the few items of information request- . But Under the other method of payment the doctor bills the patient, the patient pays the bill, and then the patient sends the completed request for pay ment form to the medicare carrier. A statement from the doctor showing the treatment given and the charges already paid by the patient must be furnished either on the re request for payment form ) or in a separate receipted bill. In South Carolina, medicare doctor bill insurance is han dled by the S. C. Medical Care Plan in Columbia. The same simple one-page request for payment form is mailed to the carrier no mat ed, Miss Pressly noted handling of forms received di rectly from medicare patients is sometimes delayed because some information has not been shown. >. If the patient leaves out his medicare identification num ber, for example^ it is impossi ble to know that he is signed up for the doctor bill insur ance, or how much of his deductible amount has been paid. Some elderly people with failing eyesight are un able to make readable entries. And some do not get properly itemized receipts from their doctors, or forget to send the receipts with their claims. If the request for payment form is not complete or filled out wrong, the medicare carrier has to write back to thp pa tient, causing a delay in his payment. “The social security office does not make the decision or pay the cUim,” Miss Pressly said. “The law requires that the payments be handled through the selected medicare carriers. But we can answer general questions about medi care and help people in the Clinton area get their claims ready for the carrier.” “If an older' person cannot visit the social security office in person he can send the forms by mail or* by someone else,” she said, “but in this case, he should be sure to give his telephone number.” The Greenwood social se curity office is located at 219 Magnolia Avenue. The phone number is 673-1711. ^ Patients currently at Bailey Memorial Hospital: Clinton: Linda Adair Mad den, Kathy L. Lawson, Mattie Bell Young, Annie L. Ed wards, Annie Mae Cheeks, Valda L. Patterson, Bessie Lee Spelce, Leona B. Nelson, Ma- ble H. Moorehead, Brenda J. Baker, leona T. Shaver, E. C. Vincent, Marvin C. Stewart, Isabella Stackhouse, Gertrude C. Holbert, James Couch, Le ona M. McCoig, Ben Tillman Brooks, Thomas Michael Luke, Maudine Rowe, Sher man J. Blackwell, Mildred Branson, George Young, Jo sephine . T. Young, Amanda Wilson, Johnny F. Cheeks, Imogene Gooch, N. C. Rich ards, Ellis Dendy, Addie Lee Kelly. Joanna: Betty P. Vaughn, Thomas Vernon Craft, Betty Joe Montjoy, Janet B. Gard ner, Dorothy M. Robbins, Ethel I. Smith, Virginia B. Burgess. Mountville: Evelyn Miller Finley, Ruth W. Stokes. Laurens — Nannie R. Chap man, Nora Kirby, Peter R. Lopez. Cross Hill: Esther King, Pa tricia A. Corenton. Columbia: Claude McEl- hannon. Cross Anchor: Roy Knox Wilson. Ninety Six: George Murrah. Discharges: ^ Clinton: Barbara R. Emer son, Baby Girl Emerson, Law rence F. Davis, Nyoka S. O’Bryant, Baby Girl O’Bry ant, Baby Girl O’Bryant, Wil lie Mae Barr, Donna G. Lee, Jeff P. Bruber, Comellius V. Gilliam; ^Ronnie Marse, Alma Jean Woody, Baby Girl Woody, J. B.. Paterson, Bertha Mae Grant. Aurelia D. Mopn, Baby Girl Moon, Gloria S. Murphy, George K. Avery, Vivian Go- field, Bernice Croy, Margaret Benjamin, Charles Hollis, Sr., Mattie Kinard, Kay T. Mann, Baby Boy Mann, Ellis Dendy, Dolloe Lusk, Leanna B. Hol land, Cede Ferguson, Ralph Campbell, Nicole Y. Jacobs, Laura Rhoden, Elizabeth S. Snelgrove, Lucinda McMorris, Ruth Phillips, Sanford E. Wil son, Judson Davis, D. C. Pru itt, James Barksdale, Mary F. Barksdale, .Mary F. Criswell, Bonnie C. Eustace, Alice Kuy kendall. D Robertson. the college touring choir. Newbefry: Willie Copeland, Before moving to CUnton re- Jr., Lucinda Anderson, Baby cently, Miss Lawson served as Girl Anderson. director of music and youth Chappells: P a tr ini a L. in the Greenwood Baptist Grant, Baby Girl Grant. • Church, Florence. ' Presently Greenwood: Barbara Banks, she serves as state Baby.Boy Banks. Kinards: Darren A. Toland. Mountville: Gladys B. Cog gins, Baby Girl Goggins. . Enoree: Ambrose Watson. Miss Aileen Lawson Is Musk Director Of Davidson St. Church ' - , - ... - ■ * Miss Aileen Lawson, of Till- music chairman for Young Woman’s Auxiliary and is employed as a music teacher at the Cam pus School, Whitten Village, near Clinton. Miss Lawson is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Law- son of Tillman. Her father is pastor of the Tillman Baptist Church. The newly elected music di rector, who resides at the Trailer Park on corner of East man, has assumed her duties Ferguson and North Woodrow Joanna: John Henry Lott, Jr., Sylvia Gossett, Bertha Wehunt, - Lilliam Seawright, Shelby South, Catherine F. Craven, Luther Poag. Laurens: L u c il e Bryson, Louise A. Chapman, Donald as music director of Davidson streets, united with this church Street Baptist Church. last Sunday by transfer of let- Miss Lawson is a 1961 grad- te u r - She » m ^ wlt . h , the , uate of Lancaster Senior High choir which consists of School and a 1965 graduate of ad “ lts and young people, and Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, will announce schedules also N. C., where she received the [ or intermediate choir and Bachelor of Music Education for the primary-junior choir, degree. Her major course of ’ ~ ' study was voice and her minor was in the field of piano and music theory.' While in college Miss Lawson was soloist for IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS Open Friday Night Till 7 P. M. Just Say Charge It! A Small Deposit Holds J Your Selection on Lay-Away! Clinton, S. C. TREMENDOUS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! 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