AI-assisted research summary: People with paraplegia can receive services under these regulations if the minister has a recommendation from the Paraplegia Screening Committee and accepts the person as suitable.
1 PARAPLEGIA SR 786/68 Paraplegia under The Health Services Act being Saskatchewan Regulations 786/68 (effective April 1, 1956) as amended by Saskatchewan Regulations 787/68. NOTE: This consolidation is not official. Amendments have been incorporated for convenience of reference and the original statutes and regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpretation and application of the law. In order to preserve the integrity of the original statutes and regulations, errors that may have appeared are reproduced in this consolidation. 2 SR 786/68 PARAPLEGIA Table of Contents 1 Interpretation 2 Recommendation and eligibility 3 Payment 4 Health Services rendered 3 PARAPLEGIA SR 786/68 SASKATCHEWAN REGULATION 786/68 under The Health Services Act – Section 52 and 59 REGULATIONS Interpretation 1 In these regulations the expression: 1 “minister” means the Minister of Public Health; 2 “paraplegia” means a condition of paralysis of all or most of the lower limbs and trunk of the human body due to a lesion or disease affecting the spinal cord; 3 “Paraplegia Screening Committee” means the Paraplegia Screening Committee appointed by the minister for the purpose of these regulations. 13 Jly 56 SR 786/68 s1. Recommendation and eligibility 2 A person with paraplegia shall be eligible to receive the services provided by these regulations when the minister has received a recommendation to that effect from the Paraplegia Screening Committee and has accepted him as a person suitable for receiving remedial care and treatment and other rehabilitative services. 13 Jly 56 SR 786/68 s2. Payment 3 The minister may make payment for medical consultations and examinations when such services are recommended by the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the patient under the provisions of section 2 of these regulations; such payment to be made upon the basis of the schedule of fees for medical practice as agreed upon from time to time between the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan and the Minister for the purposes of these regulations. 13 Jly 56 SR 786/68 s3; 17 Jan 58 SR 787/68 s1. 4 SR 786/68 PARAPLEGIA Health Services rendered 4 The health services rendered to a person eligible for services under section 2 of these regulations for which the minister at his discretion may make payment shall be as follows: (1) surgical services when required in the remedial treatment of paraplegia and medical care and attention in a hospital or nursing home necessarily incidental to the rendering and completion of such remedial treatment when the general course of such services, care, and treatment, has been approved by the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee; such payment to be made upon the basis of the schedule of fees for medical practice as agreed upon from time to time between the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan and the Minister for the purposes of these regulations. (2) those services provided by a hospital or nursing home to a patient with paraplegia for which payment is not made under The Saskatchewan Hospitalization Act, when the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee has stated that such services are necessary in the rendering and completion of such remedial services, care and treatment. (3) special nursing services rendered to a patient with paraplegia in a hospital or nursing home when such services are recommended by the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee payment for such services to be made in accordance with an agreement made between the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association and the minister. (4) certain drugs, wheel chairs, braces, and other prosthetic appliances when such drugs and appliances are recommended by the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee; and (5) any other services provided to a patient with paraplegia in a hospital or nursing home when such services are recommended by the chairman of the Paraplegia Screening Committee. 13 Jly 56 SR 786/68 s4; 17 Jan 58 SR 787/68 s2 and 3. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright©1997