Saturday, April 24, 2010

0 for 90

The [California Department of Managed Health Care] randomly selected 90 instances in which Anthem Blue Cross of California dropped the insurance of policyholders after diagnoses with costly or life-threatening illnesses to determine how many were legally justified.

None were. “In all 90 files, there was no evidence (that Blue Cross), before rescinding coverage, investigated or established that the applicant’s omission/misrepresentation was willful,” the DMHC report said.
Full article on Reuters.com

(H/t CJR)

1 comment:

AUl said...

From their point of view they're 90 for 0.

It's a good thing we are essentially guaranteeing them of higher future profits.