Horizon Blue Cross/Shield Ready to Pay Up on Eating Disorder Claims
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If you are a New Jersey resident insured by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, and you have an eating disorder, your insurer will have to pony up and pay for your treatment, if a preliminary settlement agreement is approved, as reported by Henry Gottlieb in today’s LAW.COM. But first, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield must pay the insureds who were improperly denied coverage, and the class action lawyers that brought the suit–a number that totals almost $3.6 million dollars.
Congratulations to Bruce Nagel, of Roseland, New Jersey’s Nagel Rice for forcing Horizon to do what its tens of thousands of insureds have always paid it to do–cover their medical expenses.
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throckmorton said:
THe article shows that those who were “denied care” will receive 1.18 million dollars in total. The attorneys will receive 2.45 million. I have to wonder why the attorneys get more than the plaintiffs?
We could sure help a lot of people who do not have healthcare with with 2.45 million. This would fund our charity care clinic for 3 years or help Remote Area Medicine bring healthcare to those in rural areas who really need it.
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momofED said:
To date we have spent over $100,000. and I was told I would recieve $1400. back from the settlement….FAIR?????
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Do not go to remote areas, just go to New Jersey ED patients who still do not get a fair shake. BCBS will not pay for any residential program, I think the $2.45 million could be used to help save the lives of many young women in New Jersey who suffer and die from an eating disorder.April 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm