Show Blue Cross Report I I Crow Cross payment to the Miners' Miners hospital for tor the month of or August totalled with payments to all all' I member hospitals of or Utah amounting to announces D D. O. O Wight executive ex executive ex- ex e director of the Intermountain Hospital Ber Service BerIce Ice Plan This amount paid to the member hospitals provided days of at hospital I care to tl tle e more than 1240 Blue Cross members who were admitted as patients This brought the total amount of claims paid during the first eight months of i this year to as compared with I 3 for tor the same lame same period In 1947 an an Increase of 60 per cent I In commenting on the hospital payment payment pay pay- ment Mr Wight pointed out that while some of this increase is due to a 0 greater Blue Cross enrollment much of It must bo be attributed to the larger amounts paid b by tho Plan non f rr fr r o oc ch to hel help the ho hospitals meet their higher costs during this inflationary period |