A "mental health" clause in an ERISA insurance plan did not apply to limit coverage of an insured's hospitalization for malnutrition relating to an eating disorder, the 8th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment. The plaintiff was hospitalized for 40 days due to severe malnutrition when she was 15 years old.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Health/Hospitalization Insurance: Virginia AIDS
Double-digit increases in hospitalization insurance premiums and a doubling of state retirement costs, coupled with decreases in revenue, mean residents will shell out more for their town tax bill next year, according to the town's top elected official. Under a budget that the Town Board unanimously approved earlier this month, the tax rate will rise to $1.25 per $1,000 of assessed valuation next year.
Seventy-five-year-old Thomas Duncan* never expected that he would lose his health insurance. He had an individual policy with a major insurance provider that he had held for over 15 years. It wasn't until just a few months after his emergency bypass heart surgery that he received a letter in the mail from his insurance company informing him that his coverage was being terminated due to a missed premium. Neither Thomas nor his daughter, who was paying his bills during his prolonged hospitalization, ever received a notice from his health insurance company informing him that his premium was due or that he had missed a payment.
... UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT. PART 340: RECOVERY OF BENEFITS. 340.10 - Wai...(ii) Medical, hospitalization, and other similar expenses;. (iii) Expenses for t...
CARLOS arrived at Yale-New Haven Hospital's emergency room with crushing chest pain and shortness of breath. Blood tests revealed he was having a heart attack. He was admitted to the hospital, where he spent the next five days. Two weeks prior to his hospitalization, his health insurance had run out. He could not afford his medications for heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Whenever Mandy Moore of Bethel Twp. was hospitalized for her anorexia in the past nine years, insurance mostly covered the bill - - including a $1 million tab for a five-month hospitalization last year alone. But she hasn't been able to find coverage for the specialized care or residential treatment that might get to the root of the problem for the 22-year-old mother who wants to survive for her 3- year-old daughter, Brianna.
Representatives of the National Nurse Organizing Committee would want us to believe that a single-payer system is the solution to our nation's health-care challenges (Geri Jenkins, "Lives at stake in health care reform," April 21). In support of this argument, they provide the heart-wrenching story of a fellow nurse who suffered a food-related allergy and required emergency care and hospitalization; and subsequently how her insurance company chose to deny her claim based on it being out of network.
...205. GROUP LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE CO., AKA BLUE SHIELD OF TEXAS, ET AL. v. ROYAL DR... members with medical services and hospitalization were not considered to be engaged in the insurance...
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