The Health 202: Obamacare plans face lawsuits over erroneous doctor directories
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 25, 2015.
It wasn’t until after purchasing the plan, these patients allege, that they learned their doctor or hospital was outside its network and therefore covered only partially or not at all.in December about the problem of inaccuracies in the medical provider directories of Medicare Advantage plans. “Ambetter policyholders around the nation report strikingly similar experiences: After purchasing an Ambetter insurance plan, they learn that the provider network Centene represented was available to Ambetter policyholders was in material measure, if not largely, fictitious,” the lawsuit says.
Error-ridden provider directories are just one issue in a whole basket of persistent consumer difficulties with health insurance gaining increasing attention from policymakers. it plans to release a bill by the end of the month dealing with the surprise medical bills patients can get after unexpectedly receiving care from an out-of-network provider.
The flawed tool “threatens to disrupt the health care of about 75,000 veterans every day,” ProPublica’sThe review was conducted by U.S. Digital Service, a group of software developers enlisted by the White House to help federal agencies with their technology. Hermann told the LA Times it’s important to teach doctors how to deal with web-based tactics as social media become sources of information for parents trying to decide whether to vaccinate their children, Soumya writes.
Reggie Batiste, program manager with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, administers a free HIV test as part of National HIV Testing Day in Atlanta.
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