Once again, a case of health insurers not being in the health insurance business, but the investment and premium arbitrage business. What better way to increase profits than to drop sick patients, who use services. This site again calls for REAL HEALTH REFORM which MUST begin with REAL HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM. We do not need Federal Commissions and centralized data mining to determine how to save money and extend coverage. Real reform of health insurance will do most of that for us without the interference of another bloated, wasteful, detached Federal bureaucracy. No one should be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions or dropped from coverage because they are ill and use services. These practices must end . . . obi jo
Anthem Blue Cross agrees to take back clients, pay $1-million fine
As part of a deal with California regulators, the state’s largest health insurer will offer new coverage to 2,330 people it dropped after they submitted bills for expensive medical care.
Anthem Blue Cross, the state’s largest for-profit health insurer, has agreed to pay a $1-million fine and offer new coverage — no questions asked — to 2,330 people it dropped after they submitted bills for expensive medical care.
As part of a deal that the California Department of Insurance is set to announce today, Anthem also will offer to reimburse those people for medical expenses that they paid out of pocket after they were dropped. The company, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc., estimated that those reimbursements could reach $14 million . . .
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