Some Health Plans Pay Then Take It Away — TMA Seeks To Protect Patients From Insurers’ Tactic

Imagine being faced with expensive medical bills. Then you discover your health insurance company has retroactively dropped your coverage. To make matters worse, the insurer revoked payment on all your medical bills it already paid on your behalf. This action is called rescission, and it can and does happen: Some health insurers look for reasons to rescind a patient’s health insurance so they can escape from paying his or her medical bills.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on January 27th, 2009