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"Patients off hook in emergency room fee dispute"

"Patients off hook in emergency room fee dispute": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "Emergency room doctors who think a patient's HMO has underpaid them can't bill the patient for the difference and must seek whatever redress they can from the health plan, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a big-money dispute in the medical industry."

The Los Angeles Times reports today that "Ruling removes billing headache from emergency room visits; Patients can't be billed when their HMOs fail to pay, the California Supreme Court says; Doctors say they're being squeezed."

And The Sacramento Bee reports that "State Supreme Court backs ER patients over billing."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 09, 2009 (boomark / email).