Insurance
Mar. 24, 2017
Lawyers say medical care decisions getting outsourced
Plaintiffs’ lawyers say insurers are hiring their own doctors to make medical decisions, denying care to cut costs.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Last year, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP attorneys confidentially settled a lawsuit against health insurance giant Cigna alleging wrongful medical denial related to a 38-year-old mother who needed a PET scan for her cancer treatment.
The plaintiff's doctor requested the scan five times in order to discover the full extent of the disease, but it was denied each time, according to the lawsuit...
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