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In many jurisdictions, a medical malpractice lawsuit is initiated officially by the filing and service of a summons and complaint. The parties subsequently engage in discovery," [3] a process through which documents such as medical records are exchanged, and depositions are taken by parties involved in the lawsuit. A deposition involves the ...
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a database operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that contains medical malpractice payment and adverse action reports on health care professionals. Hospitals and state licensing boards submit information on physicians and other health care practitioners, including clinical ...
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Denied claims can usually be appealed externally to an independent medical review by an independent review organizations (IROs). A de facto denial, rather than denying a prior authorization request (PAR) outright, may allow an insurer to delay responding or to indicate to a covered person they have been approved a treatment, procedure, or claim ...
Maricopa County Medical Society, 457 U.S. 332 (1982), was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving antitrust law. A society of doctors in Maricopa County, Arizona , established maximum fees that their members could claim for seeing patients who were covered by certain health insurance plans.
This decision follows a complaint in Dec 2022 by the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute and North Carolina AIDS Action Network accusing the state’s largest insurer of discriminating against people ...
In a complaint letter to the Florida attorney general, Dunn alleges the company enrolled his grandmother “for the sake of billing the government for payment for their own financial gain.” The company misled the family about the purpose of hospice — emphasizing benefits such as at-home nursing care and free medications, without explaining ...
Then, per the complaint, two different on-call OB-GYNs "acknowledged that her pregnancy could rupture but still denied her medical care," telling Norris-De La Cruz to return in 48 hours.