"In letters sent Thursday to the five largest health insurers and four largest pharmacy benefit managers first shared with The Hill, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked for information on how the companies plan to respond to federal guidance designed to improve no-cost access to birth control."
AAA was who I just went through a 2 month wrassle trying to get my used van insured. They dismissed me out of hand, with the people making the decision never letting me know who they were although they got access to LOTS of data about me. No accountability.
Remember you can fight things & if we don't fight things, they tend to get worse. Remember you can not just complain to AAA, but if you're in CA you can complain to the Insurance Commissioner
"Even if you have health insurance, you might expect to be charged a copayment for some routine care, like office-based exams and consultations. But you probably don’t expect to receive a bill a few weeks later charging you an extra $100 or more...In most states, a 'hospital facility fee' can legally appear on your bill if your doctor is affiliated with a large hospital system — even if you never set foot on the hospital’s campus."
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Sure, we have EMTALA, but that only guarantees access to emergency care. It doesn't guarantee affordable care for all.
I am a primary care physician in Texas who cares for patients with mental health conditions and intellectual disability disorders. Currently, I have 3 patients who need diagnostic testing for abnormal cervical cancer screenings and 1 patient with an abnormal colon cancer screen. Their options are cost-prohibitive.
"Texas has so far removed 2.1 million Medicaid recipients from its rolls, which works out to 49% of the cases it has reviewed, more than twice the national average and a higher proportion than all but six other states, according to analysis by the nonprofit KFF."
The California auto loan king behind Donald Trump’s $175m bond to stave collections while he appeals a $454m civil fraud judgment has said he was “happy to do it”. #Don#Hankey, chairman and majority shareholder of #Knight#Specialty#Insurance, told CNN that his underwriting of Trump’s loan was “what we do”.
“I’m happy to do it. We would have done it for anybody else,” the 80-year-old said. “It was an easy transaction. It was put together very quickly.”
The bond filing to the court came three days ahead of a deadline on Trump and his company imposed by a New York appeals court.
Hankey told the network that Knight Specialty Insurance Company used a combination of cash and investment-grade bonds to pay the fee.
Hankey noted to CNN and other outlets that his company had initiated the deal,
reaching out to Trump before the appeals court reduced the amount the former president would have to pay while his appeal was heard.
The billionaire, who the network reported is worth more than $7.4bn, also confirmed to Forbes that he and his wife, as well as their two sons, supported Trump’s past political campaigns and would do so again.
“I’d never met Donald Trump,” he told Forbes. “I’d never talked to him on the phone. I heard that he needed a loan or a bond, and this is what we do. So, we reached out, and he responded.”
The $175m bond holds the New York attorney general, Letitia James, at bay while Trump takes the judgment to appeal. James said as the initial deadline approached last month that she was ready to start seizing properties https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/02/donald-trump-bond-paid-don-hankey?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Just FYI, when #insurance companies don't let you submit correspondence to them electronically through their web site, it's not because they're concerned about privacy. It's because they want to make it as hard as possible for you to create a paper trail of your interactions with them to minimize evidence of their wrongdoing. #HealthInsurance#DentalInsurance
I just got off the phone with #UnitedHealthcare; there was no option to contact them online.
I called to tell them they made a several-hundred-dollars error processing a claim. I could have filed a "dispute" by postal mail instead of calling them on the phone, but (a) a dispute would have been overkill for a processing error, (b) it would have been much more troublesome, and (c) it would have added at least a week to the process. #Insurance#HealthInsurance#DentalInsurance
The error was #UnitedHealthcare claiming the primary insurer covered over $1,000 of a claim when in fact they covered none of it.
The rep I spoke with told me two objectively wrong things:
"You should contact the primary insurer." Nope! The other insurance company didn't make the error, United did.
"To fix this we will have to remove the other insurance company as the primary on the claim." Nope! Again, they are the primary, they just didn't cover this particular charge.
smdh