Comprehensive healthcare reform has failed in California. But that doesn’t mean health insurance companies will, or should, escape scrutiny from state officials.
As reporter Lisa Girion has ably chronicled in this newspaper, insurance companies frequently revoke patient coverage — a practice known as rescission — under questionable circumstances. Girion has written, for example, of cancer patients […]
A series of troubling developments in California’s individual health insurance market is bringing national attention to the problem of patients having their coverage taken away when they need it most.
Last month, an arbitration judge ordered California-based health insurer Health Net Inc. to pay $9 million to a cancer patient whose individual coverage was canceled during […]
Comprehensive healthcare reform has failed in California. But that doesn’t mean health insurance companies will, or should, escape scrutiny from state officials.
As reporter Lisa Girion has ably chronicled in this newspaper, insurance companies frequently revoke patient coverage — a practice known as rescission — under questionable circumstances. Girion has written, for example, of cancer patients […]
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The health-insurance industry is racing to defuse a growing furor over retroactive policy cancellations that have saddled some patients with big medical bills and sparked lawsuits.
America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group, is pushing a proposal with state regulators that would give consumers the right to appeal such policy cancellations, known as rescissions, to an […]
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Over the last month, roughly 24,000 children in Texas signed up for the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), reported the Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle.
It was a 7 percent surge in the number of children enrolled in SCHIP, and brings the total number of kids covered to 382,000.
State officials said the increased enrollment […]
Comprehensive healthcare reform has failed in California. But that doesn’t mean health insurance companies will, or should, escape scrutiny from state officials.
As reporter Lisa Girion has ably chronicled in this newspaper, insurance companies frequently revoke patient coverage — a practice known as rescission — under questionable circumstances. Girion has written, for example, of cancer patients […]
Over the last month, roughly 24,000 children in Texas signed up for the state’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), reported the Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle.
It was a 7 percent surge in the number of children enrolled in SCHIP, and brings the total number of kids covered to 382,000.
State officials said the increased enrollment […]