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wcdncs&y, nsvc-rr.bar 17, 1978 1 r Reparian pavszni fee citeefos DyMiiy JoHtd ; . Discussion on further disclosure of patient fees at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is slated for the NU Board of Regents meeting this Saturday according to NU Corporate Secretary William Swanson. Lack of public knowledge of the fees doctors at the medical center receive from referred patients has raised questions from the Legislature's Appropriations Com mittee and has caused a regents committee to prepare a report on the issue, - , ' At Saturday's meeting, the regents committee will pre sent a report proposing changes in the medical service plan, Swanson said. , The medical service plan makes professional fee amounts available to NU President D.B. Varner, medica center Acting Chancellor Harry McFayden and Dr. Perry Rigby, dean of the College of Medicine. Salaries of the faculty members are public information, but the fees faculty members receive for professional services are known only to the doctors and the three administrators. , ' THrsd budgeting' ' : Concerned about blind budgeting", the Appropria tions Committee has requested increased disclosure of the fees for treating referred patients, Utica Sen. Douglas Bereuter said, "There is only one class of state employes whose salar ies are not available for public scrutiny, those at the mcd center," said Bereuter, a member of the Appropriations Committee, I don't think we can separate out a class of state employes and treat them special," he said. The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Dept. is sponsor-. ing a Christmas ski trip to Utah Dec. 29 through Jan. 2. Registration is due Dec 2. There also will be a ski trip to Steamboat Springs, Colo., Feb. 18 to 21, for persons 1 8 or older. This trip is $199 which includes .. three days lodging, equip ment rental, lift tickets, in surance, and transportation. Registration is due Dec 14. For more information call 475-6734. Alpha -Omicron Pi is sponsoring a canay sale and book raffle Nov. 15 through Dec. 10 at the Nebraska Union North Booth. - Any member of the NU Vet Club who is interested in going on a field trip should contact Kent Rohrig at 464-0288 before Wednes day. Research Study rooms in Love Library will be assign . ed Jan. 18 for one semester. Rooms are assigned to faculty members and gradu ate students working on re search projects or doctoral dissertations. Because re quests for rooms exceed the 120 spaces available, ordinarily only one renewal after the initial assignment can be allowed. Contact Eugene Johnson, Love Library 206, 472-1628, for information or pick up an application form in Love Library 103. Interviews for the 1977 Union Program Council (UPC) executives and com mittee chairmanships will be Dec 4, in the Nebraska Union. JCC committee chairmanships include: Art Lending Library, Black Activities, Concerts, Domestic Film, Foreign Film, Human Potentials, l.lajor Attractions, Model United Nations, Performing Arts, Recreation, Record Lending Library, Talks & T opics, Visual Arts and Wal purgisnadit, -Application forms will be available Mon day in the Union Program Office, Union 150. short: stuff The Pre-Physical Therapy Club will meet at 6:30 to night in the Union. . . . ; The UNL Actuarial dub will meet at 7 tonight in Burnett 319,- - The UNL Young Demo : crats will beet at 9. tonight ' at Horsefeathers. . The Student's Internat ional ., Meditation Society will be giving an introduct ory lecture on transcenden tal meditation at 8 tonight in the United Methodist Church, 16th and IJ streets. .The UNL African Stu dents Association is spon soring a lecture by Julien Lafontant on the Aspects of Negritude" at 7:30 to night in the Union. The UNL Go Club will meet at 730 tonight in the Union 2 ISA. - The Political Science Dept. is sponsoring a Con ference on Peasantry of Eastern Europe starting at 2 pjn. Thursday and running through Saturday. ....... The Lincoln-Lancaster County Genology Society will meet at 7 tonight at the Easter day Center, 62nd and ' Adams streets. , Phi Upsilon Omicron will meet at 6:j0 p jn. Thursday in the Union. The Graduate Student Association will meet Thurs day at 730 pjn. in the C. Y. Thompson Library on East Campus. All graduate and under graduate women with a 2.7 average pursuing a business career nrry pledge Phi Chi Theta, the professional business women's fraternity at 430 psa. Thursday in the Union. " John Reeder, University of Wyoming professor, will speak on TheEwfaiim of a OassficstionThe Gram ineae at 330 pjn. Thursday in Eessey IUII Auditorium. , Bereuter said lack of knowledge of the doctor income from professional fees makes it difficult for the Appro priations Committee to budget . for the medical center. For past medical center budgets, Bereuter said, the Appropriations Committee has relied on the recommen dations of the regents. However, Bereuter said he is unconvinced that all of the regents are aware of exactly how much money goes to medical center faculty memb ers, Bereuter and the members of the Appropriations Corn-' mittee want full disclosure of the professional fees to any one requesting the information. He said he can understand why many faculty members do not want to have their salaries made public, 'Taut that's one infringement on their privacy that's justified, lt's the regent's job (to get more disclosure),' Ber euter said, explaining the regents should make this move without legislative action. - . Hot inadequate . ,v ' The Appropriations Committee voted 6-1 that the medical service plan currently in use at the medical center is inadequate for budgeting purposes. The medical service plan has been in effect four or five years, according to Dr. Prentice Dettman, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nebraska Qinician's Group.' Most medical schools have evolved a medical service plan to better fulfill their purposes without remaining entirely dependent on federal or state subsidies, Dettman said. . Included within the medical service plan, is a billing system that channels all patients' payments. AH bills are divided -up to pay for the various services the patient receives and passed on to the medical department ren dering the service. - Professional care bills are handled by the Professional Fees Office, a service group that does the billing for medical center physicians treating patients, Dettman said. Patients are classified as deferred" or Sion-ref erred", and billed accordingly. ASUNo The ASUN Senate will meet today at 630 pjn. in Nebraska Union Conference Room. The agenda includes: RoilCaS. Approval of Minutes. I. Executive reports. A.JoeStavas. : B. Tony Williams. C Bill Mueller D. Annette Sorensen. II. Open forum. A. Ken Kof old -Academic Planning Committee. B. Dave Peder son Cen ter for Educational Change. III. Old business. A. Appointments. B. Academic Policy. j ifs tha )) QQ Ml O ( :mRTYat . . Jj ; Thomasbrcok (j il : Clubhouse tr jr , Y) UrEFSFREE.fmmERSS1IX - - " ' . il ill 1: h I: f: - rv- )i I" I i : : -V-i geodc IV. New business. A. Resolution No. 34 standing committee chair man reports. B. Resolution No, 35 committee interviews. C Resolution No. 36 removal system for senators. D. Resolution No. 37 ASUN meeting structure. E. Resolution No. 38 Union user feeregents. V. Announcements. A. Constitutions in office. 1, Junior Varsity Yell Squad. . 2. The Organization of Iranian Students at UNL. B. GeneraL Non-referred patients are those who da not request a Esrticular doctor when they visit the medical center, cttraan said, lhe prolesssonal service money lrom non referred patients bills is recirculated into state accounts, as the medical center is a state school. Thirty per cent of the bill is sent to the dean of the College of Medicine and 70 per cent is sent to the medical department serving the patient. - Every medical center doctor is required to submit a report of his income to an accounting group hired by the Professional Fees Office, according to Dettman. Follow ing ""elaborate auditing," the accountants present a re port on professional fees of faculty members to the NU president, the medical center chancellor and the dean of the College of Medidne, Dettman said.- A new amendment to the medical service plan pro poses that the results of this report also be made avail able to the Executive Committee of the regents, Dettman said. The amendment is presented by a committee consist ing of Rigby, three regents and three members of the medical center clinician's group. It is this amendment the Appropriations, Committee finds inadequate for its budgeting purposes. Bereuter said an amendment to the medical service plan, whatever it may turn out to be, could not pass the Legislature in time for the 1 977-78 budgeting. Te will be budgeting blindly in that area for at least this year," Bereuter said. A report compiled by the legislative fiscal staff com pares the professional fee plans of NU with those of five other state universities with medical centers. Of the schools able to provide information, Nebraska is the most limited in acwiabjiity for income from pro fessional fees , . Audit information for the professional fees is the most secretive in Nebraska, as compared with audits at Iowa, Kansas and Illinois Universities, which are also subject to regular university audit. c'ailu Editor-in-chief: Theresa Foramen. Manning Editor: Randal Slauvett. TJews Editor: Sandy Mehr. Associate fiSam Editors: Ron Rurkss and Rex Sssir. Layout Editor: Liz Board. Entertainment Editor: Michael Zangeri. Sports Editor: Pete fVegman. Third Dimension Editor: Nancy Stohs. Tht Tlsms Editor: Kim Shepherd. Photography Editor: Stew fioerner. Photography Chief: Ted Kirk. Copy Editors: Chuck Beck, Nancy Clark, Pete Mason. Gail Smith and Randy Wright. Business Vlangger: Jerri Haussier. 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