Coverage Denied
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After years of paying for a badly disabled boy’s nursing care, the insurer said he no longer needed it. His parents hired a lawyer.
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Patients dropped by Blue Shield may sue as a class, a panel says.
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One of the state’s largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.
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Blue Cross of California agreed Thursday to stop canceling individual health coverage unless it can show policyholder deception -- a major shift by the state’s largest health insurer that could lead to sweeping industrywide changes.
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An appeals court will weigh Blue Shield’s retroactive cancellation of a car-crash patient.
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California’s top insurance regulator has accused Blue Shield, one of the state’s largest health plans, of 1,262 violations of claims-handling laws and regulations that resulted in more than 200 people losing their medical coverage.
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Group plans are being dropped or becoming unaffordable to many.
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The health insurer ‘routinely’ dropped the policies of pregnant or ill clients, an agency finds. The company disputes the charge.
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The state’s top HMO regulator calls for outside oversight of insurers’ attempts to drop policyholders.
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Common medications also can be deemed too risky in California.
