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Old 02-05-2009, 02:27 PM
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Default Insurance Settlements May Benefit Patients

This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal today. You may not be able to recover the costs associated with your ADR (but it may not hurt to try), but it could help you recover all the costs you accrued in your journey:

Insurance Settlements May Benefit Patients

By M.P. MCQUEEN

A string of recent legal settlements with big health insurers may allow some participants in managed-care plans to begin recovering some of the money they may have overpaid for using out-of-network doctors and hospitals.

So far, insurers UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc. and Health Net Inc. have agreed to make millions of dollars in funds available to patients and, in some cases, physicians for possibly having shortchanged them in the past. A number of other legal actions are pending that seek redress for patients and health-care providers who claim they were underpaid by insurers for out-of-network services.

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