24 - EVENING HERALD. Tuea.. Oct 14, IMP ^ 9 Doctor fees rising slowly iKaurliFfitpr NEW YORK (UPI) - Doctor fees since 1979, About half the doctors are only 13 percent higher this year charge more than the median, than last — less than the rate of infla­ however. The medians were as tion — due to growing competition follows: Cloudy for .patients and closer scrutiny of General practitioners $15, family Variable cloudiness medical claims by insurance com­ practitioners $15, internists $20, W E A T H E R today. Cloudy, warmer panies, a survey shows. ‘ general surgeons $16, obstetricians- Thursday. The nation’s expanding supply of gynecologists $20, pediatricians $16, doctors has fueled stiff competition cardiologists $21, neurologists $26, neurosurgeons $21, orthopedic sur­ YOI K UOMKTOWN yEWSVAPER e and physicians have had to keep fees Vol. C, No. 13 — Manchester, Conn., Wednesday, October 15, 1980 • Since 1881 20u down in order to attract patients, geons $17~ urologists $17, all surgical said the survey published Monday ip specialists $17 and all non-surgical Medical Economics, a business specialists $20. magazine for doctors. Medicitl Economics said $40 or A sampling of 11 medical more fees for office visits were specialties, including rates for office charged by 1 percent of the general visits and hospital services, found practitioners, 2 percent of the i forces outside Abadan "physicians fees, as measured by the obstetricians-gynocologists; 4 per­ Consumer Price Index, appeared to cent of the cardiologists; 10.percent 1 , BASRA, Iraq (UPI) — Iraqi There was no independent confirma­ Tehran radio accounts of ground be rising at midyear at an annual of the neurologists; 5 percent of the dle E ast’s largest oil refinery, skeptical of Iran’s ability to sow today on the w%'r, now in its fourth neurosurgeons; and 19 percent of the warplanes attacked Abadan tion of this report. fighting at Abadai)^ were confused marked by a billowing column of mines in the strait, the vital artery week, and said delegates from Iran rate of 13 percent.” repeatedly today and ground fighting But a sudden increase of battle and indirect. "But that was about one point non-surgfcal specialists — allergists, acrid black smoke and orange flame. through which travels 40 percent of and Iraq were scheduled to attend for was reported at the edges of the oil reports from both Tehran and One broadcast quoted a correspon­ lower than the ‘all items' section of dermatologists, fdr example. Fighting also raged near Ahvaz, the West’s imported oil. the first time. refinery city. Baghdad indicated a sharp speedup dent in the refinery city as saying the CPI and four points below 'all Median fees charged when visiting another key oil city in Iran’s If Iran did have enough mines and With the war in its 24th day, Iraq „ The m ilitary com m ander in in the pace of the fighting, both on the Iraqi forces had been hurled back 4.5 services' — with which physicians’ patients the first day of hospital care Khuzistan province, and in a moun­ tried to plant them, mine-sweeping rained artillery fire on Abadan and Abadan vowed that defenders would ground around Abadan and in the air. miles and were ’Tjapped.” Another fees can most fairly .be compared,” were: general practitioners $50, tainous frontier area in the northern helicopters aboard two U.S. aircraft poured more men and artillery into make the city the “graveyard” of the Iranian planes bombed Baghdad quoted a message from the Iranian carriers in the Arabian Sea could be Medical Economics said. family practitioners $50 and inter­ war zone. the battle for the Iranian city, whose A Iraqi attackers. for the second straight day. Iraq ad­ army commander in Abadan warning used for clearing operations. “I think Merian Kirchner, the senior nists $52. Some charge much more — But the key struggle was the battle oil refinery is the largest in the Mid­ Tehran radio detailed three mitted seven other Iranian air raids that “Iraqi forces intend to penetrate we could sweep as fast as they laid associate editor who wrote the $100 or more the first time. for Abadan, a city and refinery com­ dle East. The medians for subsequent separate Iraqi air attacks on Abadan. from Iraq’s far northeast to the city the city.” plex pounded continually since the them,” said one official. report, explained the comparatively of Kut, 100 miles southeast of • 3 li "hospital rounds” or visits to a It said “the land and air battle" in war began 24 days ago. Iraq bridged In Washington, a congressional moderate increases, saying, "The On Tuesday Iraq said its forces had The refinery town has been at­ hospitalized patient were: general the area continues. Baghdad. a river northeast of Khurramshahr study said a lengthy blockage of the degree of restraint you’re exercising Iraq said it shot down three Iranian driven to within 3 to 4 miles of tacked by artillery and from the air ,<f, r*> practitioners $16, family prac­ Kuwait's news agency cited an on Friday and poured tanks and men strait due to the war could triple can’t be attributed entirely to Abadan. By today it appeared Iraqi since the first week of the war and titio n e rs $16, in te rn is ts $21. Abadani,radio broadcast saying Iraqi planes. The mayor of Abadan said he into a left-hook drive toward Abadan. world crude oil prices to $100 a barrel altruistic concern for patients’ troops had at least penetrated the every one of the 152 oil storage tanks pediatricians $19, Some, however, forces "are trying to infiltrate inside saw the wreckage of three Iraqi Iran again threatened to mine the and possibly send the price to a high pocketbooks or for overall health­ city’s outer defenses. has been hit, observers said. charge $30 or more for such visits. the city.” It said the city’s radio sta­ MiGs shot down Tuesday and Tehran (Strait of Hormuz if Gulf states help of $130. care cost control.” tion halted all normal broadcasting radio said another was shot down - Iraq continued to rain artillery fire Under the artillery barrage, the Another major factor in Iraq in the war. But Pentagon of­ At the United Nations, the Security Iraqi ground force slogged to within 3 ^ - f - to concentrate on the infiltration. over Abadan today. on the flaming wreckage of the Mid­ Council announced a special session physician's fees is insurance com­ Expert says ficials in Washington said they were to 5 miles of Abadan. Disaster scene Blast survivor panies. "Third-party reimbursement S* policies are getting tougher,” the Bigfoot fake Officials search the debris at the Bowen Homes Daycare Deloris Smith holds her son Gregory Smith after he survived magazine said. Center in Atlanta, Ga., Monday following an explosion which the blast at an Atlanta, Ga., day school center. Four children Blue Shield has gotten pickier ATHENS, Ohio (UPI) - An Ohio Buckland sale process restarts killed four children and a teacher. The explosion was at­ were killed and seven to 12 reported injured. (UPI photo) about doctor bills for their clients. So State University zoologist, who spent have many other insurance plans and By MARY KITZMANN tributed to a faulty boiler. (UPI Photo) several weeks in southern Ohio hills mitee of three. The subcommitee Uncle Sam, who pays for S^oi^l Herald Reporter when he wished the board to insure Robert Weiss, town manager, leans investigating Bigfoot. attributes the recommended the building be sold, / the zone change, or lower the price toward retaining the building, and Security patients. recent rash of sightings of the MANCHESTER - The Board of as the cost of repairing the leaky roof Of the increases discovered by the mysterious creature to "weirdo psy­ as the $232,000 was based on a com­ questioned whether the board would Directors seeks a fresh start in the and heating system would be great. mercial use. survey, the largest were for com­ chology." sale of Buckland School. still be interested in selling. Day care center bomb The board also followed the The report the Board of Director prehensive histories, physicals and Zoologist Dr. Gerald Svendsen said The board las( night adopted a Weiss said he had two offers to recommendation of the Planning and seeks from town staff includes for initial hospital care. Medical all the evidence he has seen in Ohio proposal by Mayor Stephen Penny to lease the building, from a church Zoning Commission that the ballfield requests for three different prices, Economics said obstetricians, has been manmade and is "totally start from scratch in investigating school and a computer software com­ on the school parcel be replaced the school's value based on the pre­ pany. gynecologists and general surgeons fake." He said all the Bigfoot foot­ sales prices, needed repairs, and within a half mile of the school. sent zoning, for use as offices, and have also hiked fees for higher- prints he was shown were dug out by' whether even to sell the school. Director William Diana added to The board set the price at the the highest and best use. the sale investigation that the priced procedures. hand. These questions are almost identical average of two appraisa'is, conducted Parents fear racism "...A subtotal gastrectomy Svendsen checked evidence of the The proposal also includes reports assessor include the amount of tax to the investigation the board con­ by “outside" appraisers. However, on costs for repairing the leaky foof, (removal of part of stomach) ... and creature in the hills near McArthur. ducted when considering the income private ownership of the when the averaae price of $232,000 and heating system, which the sub­ building would generate.