Wake County Medical Society. Medical Fee Bill

Medical Fee Bill:
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Wake County Medical Society

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(caption title) Medical Fee Bill
Wake County Medical Society
1 p.
[Raleigh, N. C.]
Star Office
[185-?]

Call number Cb610 W72 (Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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MEDICAL FEE BILL.

The Committee to whom was referred the subject of preparing a Fee Bill, for the adoption of this Society, beg leave to make the following report:

That-Whereas, in the opinion of the members of this Society, it is disreputable to the medical profession, since it is in effect as it unquestionably is in spirit, a detestable, species of Quackery, for professional men, either directly or indirectly, through the influence and machinery of friends, to get tip the cry against their brethren of being dear Doctors, or in favor of themselves of being cheap Doctors; and whereas further, it is the opinion of the members of this Society, agreeable to Art. VII, chap. 11. of the code of medical Ethics, "that some general rules should be adopted by the faculty in every town or district, relative to pecuniary acknowledgments from their patients; and it should be a point of honor to adhere to these rules with as much uniformity as varying circumstances will admit:" Therefore

Resolved, That the following rates of charges for professional services be adopted by the Wake County Medical Society, and that the same be subscribed by each member of the Society.

FEE BILL OF THE WAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

For a single visit, or advice or prescription at office, . . . . .$1 00
For a day's attendance in town, & c. not including visits at night, . . . . .2 00
For each hour's detention, . . . . . 1 00
For written opinion or advice to a patient, . . . . .3 00--5 00
For a visit at night, after ordinary bed time, . . . . .2 00
For Consultation, . . . . .5 00
For each visit after consultation, . . . . .1 00
For consultation at night, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For a visit under one mile from town, . . . . .1 00
For a visit over one mile and not exceeding two, . . . . .1 50
For all distances over two miles, fifty cents for each mile. All the charges to be double at night and in bad weather.
For post-mortem examination in legal investigation, . . . . .20--40
For a post-mortem examination made by request & c. . . . . .5 00--10 00
For a certificate of state of health of individual, . . . . .5 00
For vaccination . . . . .1 00
For a case of midwifery, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For the application of instruments, . . . . .5 00--20 00
For the operation of embryulcia, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For the operation of turning, . . . . .5 00--20 00
For any indisposition in the mother or child, after the tenth day from confinement, the charge for attendance as in ordinary cases requiring medical treatment. But when any serious ailment occurs in either mother or child within the ten days, a charge is to be made for each visit as in other cases of disease.
For bleeding, and giving an injection, each, . . . . .1 00
For cupping and leeching, each, . . . . .1 00--2 00
For staying all night with a patient, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For reducing fractures and the first dressing, . . . . .5 00--20 00
For reducing recent luxations, . . . . . 5 00--15 00
For reducing old luxations, . . . . .10 00--30 00
For removal of stone from bladder, . . . . .100 00--300 00
For amputation of leg or arm, . . . . .15 00--30 00
For amputation at the shoulder or hip joint, . . . . .50 00--100 00
For amputation of a finger or toe, . . . . .5 00
For extracting a tooth, . . . . .1 00
For the extirpation of tumours, . . . . .5 00--25 00
For trepanning, . . . . .20 00--40 00
For the operation for cataract, . . . . .25 00--50 00
For other operations on the eye and its appendages, . . . . .2 00--20 00
For the operation for aneurism, & c., . . . . .50 00--100 00
For the operation for strangulated hernia, . . . . .20 00--40 00
For the operation for hare lip, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For the operation for fistula in ano, . . . . .20 00--40 00
For the operation for fistula in perineo . . . . .25 00--50 00
For the operation for haemorrhoids . . . . .20 00--50 00
For the palliative operation for hydrocele . . . . . 5 00--10 00
For the operation for the radical cure of hydrocele, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For the the operation for vesico-vaginal or recto-vaginal fistula, . . . . .25 00--50 00
For the operation for phymosis and paraphymosis, & c., . . . . .5 00--20 00
For the introduction of the catheter, in ordinary cases, . . . . .1 00--2 00
For the introduction of the catheter in cases of obstruction, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For division of stricture of the urethra, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For the operation for artificial joint, . . . . .20 00--40 00
For the operation of tracheotomy, . . . . .20 00--40 00
For the operation for imperforate anus vogino, & c., . . . . .5 00--20 00
For the Caesarian operation, . . . . .100 00
For the reduction of hernia by taxis, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For extirpation of the tonsils
For the introduction of the stomach pump, in cases of poisoning, . . . . .10 00--20 00
For removal of foreign bodies lodged in the pharynx or oesophagus, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For removal of foreign bodies lodged in the ear or nose, . . . . .2 00--5 00
For reduction of prolapsus ani, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For examination per vaginam or anum, . . . . .5 00
For the introduction of a pessary, . . . . .5 00
For the introduction of a seaton or forming an issue, . . . . .2 00
For tapping for ascites, & c., . . . . .5 00--10 00
For cure of gonorrhoea, exclusive of medicines, . . . . .10 00
For the cure of syphilis exclusive of medicines . . . . .20 00
For the operation in diseased antrum, . . . . .5 00--10 00
For the operation for polypus, . . . . .5 00--25 00
For extirpation of mamma, . . . . .25 00--50 00
Por opening abscess, . . . . .1 00--5 00
For dressing incised and penetrating wounds, . . . . .1 00--5 00

Physicians should present their accounts at least annually, or as much oftener as they may deem proper.

In all surgical cases the charge for subsequent attendance to be in proportion to the time occupied and the trouble incurred.

Star Office.

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