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Show Blue Shield Notes 10th Year With Story Off Growth Blue Shield commemorated its tenth year of community service in Utah at the annual meeting of the Medical Service Bureau of the Utah State Medical Assn., Inc., in Salt Lake City. More than 250 Blue Shield physicians phy-sicians attended the dinner meeting meet-ing where they learned that their prepaid medical care plan had broken a number of records during dur-ing the year. The annual report showed that Blue Shield membership in Utah reached 126,631 during the year with the enrollment of 18,902 persons. Income reached an all-time high of $1,831,196.68, Blue Shield paid $1,445,147.99, or 79.17 per cent of income, to physicans for services rendered to 33,461 subscribers. An additional $22,191.46 was set a-side a-side in reserves for future subscriber sub-scriber care. Operating expenses totalled only 8.66 per cent of income, in-come, Blue Shield treasurer, Wil-ford Wil-ford G. Biesinger, M. D., reported. Paul A. Clayton M. D., Blue Shield president, announced that new Blue Shield contracts to be issued soon will include in-hospi-tal medical and phychiatric care as additional benefits. Re-elected to the board of directors dir-ectors during the meeting were Dr. Biesinger, Springville, and Wendell J. Thomsen, M.D., Ogden. Newly elected directors were Drew M. Peterson, M.D., Ogden; Richard D. Wetzel, M.D., Salt Lake City;, H. C, Shoemaker, Utah state welfare commissioner. Officers of the Medical Service Bureau include Dr. Clayton, Garner Gar-ner B. Meads, M.D., vice president Dr. Biesinger, Hersey, Hyrum G. Cook, assistant secretary. More than 750 Utah doctors are Blue Shield participating physicans. |