TABLES ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE MEDICAL PROGRAMS Continued Table 2.-Old-age assistance: Payments for vendor medical bills: Total amount, amount for which type of service was not reported, and amount in all States reporting for specified type of service, by State, fiscal year 1959 (supplied by the Bureau of Public Assistance)1

1 In some instances, figures are presented where no federally aided vendor
payments are made; in others, no figures are presented where vendor pay-
ment programs are now in existence. These discrepancies are generally the
result of the method and of the timing of the State reports. For example,
Alabama, although it has no federally approved plan for vendor method
payment, reports total payments of $17,473. This amount, however,

represents payments from local funds only. New York, which has a vendor
program for all types of services, reported its payments for practitioners'
services and drugs and supplies under the heading designated "Other."
Another example is the fact that no hospitalization payments are listed for
Florida, because the program did not go into effect until October 1959.