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Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Watchdog Raises Concern That Health Policy Cancellation Rules Have Been Derailed in Deal With Kaiser
May 31st, 2008
A settlement with Kaiser Permanente over more than 1,000 patients whose health coverage was retroactively cancelled is an improvement on past proposals because it acknowledges that patients can make claims for repayment of losses resulting from policy cancellations such as bankruptcy or loss of a home. In past proposals patients could not recover costs incurred after policies were wrongly cancelled. However, Consumer Watchdog said that such a deal is no substitute for regulations promised 18 months ago by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) which regulators said will not be issued. Consumer Watchdog said that the Department appears to be trading away tough...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-31)
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