Thursday, August 7, 2008

Illinois’s Largest Health Insurer Won’t Pay for Hospital Errors

Another big insurer says it will stop paying hospitals for costs associated with serious medical errors.
This time, it’s Health Care Service Corp., which covers 12.4 million people under four Blue Cross plans including Illinois Blue Cross, the Chicago Tribune reports. Early this year Aetna and WellPoint joined the no-pay bandwagon.
Many hospitals have already stopped billing [...]

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