Insurances related articles. 

• Insurance crimes

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• NewsDay: 

A consortium representing 25,000 doctors said yesterday it is stepping up legal action against the Oxford insurance company to claim more than $140 million in unpaid fees. more

• Doctors, Regulators Put Heat on Oxford for Back Bills

Doctors and regulators are becoming fed up with OXFORD HEALTH PLANS (Norwalk, CT) and its failure to pay millions of dollars in claims, so they are taking action.

A group that represents 5,000 Manhattan doctors was preparing to file two arbitration proceedings Tuesday against the healthcare giant, citing "a pattern of delays, denials and detours from acceptable practice, " according to a New York Times report published Tuesday. The group, known as the New York County Medical Society, described its insurrection against a managed care provider such as Oxford as unprecedented. more

• Doctor are leaving the profession, dropping from plans

"300 Doctors May End Contract With Aetna Managed-Care Unit  
Hundreds of doctors in Fairfield County plan to terminate their contract with Aetna U.S. Healthcare on June 30, a move that would force 12,000 to 15,000 patients to find new doctors or a new health plan at year's end. But the doctors and Aetna said ..." more

• HMO have become troubled businesses. " In just four frenetic years, the respected if somewhat stodgy insurance company once affectionately nicknamed Mother Aetna transformed itself into a colossal
  force in a much-criticized business, health plans.

• Patients should be scared Letter to the Editor The practice of medicine has become unsafe for physicians.

• Doctors Sue Health Plans Over Coverage By PAUL ZIELBAUER

• NEW HAVEN, Feb. 14 — Two groups representing 7,000 Connecticut doctors filed a battery of lawsuits today against six large health maintenance organizations, claiming that the companies "systematically harmed" patients by arbitrarily denying crucial medical treatment and illegally withholding millions of dollars in payments they owe doctors.
• Doctors' Suit vs. H.M.O.'s Can Proceed By MILT FREUDENHEIM
  A federal judge in Miami rejected motions by the insurance companies for dismissal of the suits challenging the business practices of health maintenance organizations. 600'000 physicians..
  Date: March 03, 2001
  Source: The New York Times | Section: Business

• May 8, 2001, Tuesday

• H.M.O.'s Say Doctors' Suit Is No Class Action

  The nation's biggest health insurers argued in a federal court here today against consolidating the claims of 600,000 doctors into a single class-action suit.

• Death Penalty for HMO Treatment Denials?

  by John A. Humbach, Pace University School of Law^*