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Healthcare - Consumers for Quality Care (CQC)
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. Wall Street-driven health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other for-profit health care corporations are increasingly maximizing profits by limiting care - often putting profits before patients' health. Consumers for Quality Care (CQC) was established in 1994 to investigate and report publicly on the epidemic of medical malpractice and reckless corporate care-cutting by HMOs. CQC has worked diligently to become a nationally recognized, highly eff...
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UnitedHealth/PacifiCare Merger Will Make Goliaths Too Big to Compete;
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. Jul 06, 2005. CONTACT: Jerry Flanagan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 319. UnitedHealth/PacifiCare Merger Will Make Goliaths Too Big to Compete;. State and Federal Regulators Must Get Guarantees for Patients, Doctors and Hospitals. FTCR said it would call on state and federal regulators to:. Investigate whether increased HMO market control will result in smaller payments to doctors and hospitals that could threaten local health care providers.
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In the Media - Healthcare / Consumers for Quality Care
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. Jul 07, 2005. UnitedHealth to buy PacifiCare in deal worth $8.1 Billion. FTCR, the consumer group that led the fight in California over WellPoint, has launched an attack on the UnitedHealth Group and PacifiCare merger, and said that health insurers claim mergers provide better and more cost-effective care, but history shows ju. more. The San Francisco Chronicle. Jul 07, 2005. UnitedHealth plans to acquire PacifiCare;. The New York Times. Jul 07, 2005.
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ERISAclaim.com - New Strategic Partners: Leading US Healthcare New Horizons
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ERISA or non-ERISA Appeal? Prompt Pay Crisis & Rx. Pre-existing Cond. Denial. Death of Managed Care. CMS New Appeal Rules. ERISA & Your Money. ERISA & Your Insanity. Rx for GM Health Crisis. US Healthcare Crisis Rx. Employers, Insurers, TPAs. 950,000 MDs & ERISA. Moukawsher and Walsh, LLC. Pension and Employee Benefit Law. SPD's for NJ State. SUMMARY PROGRAM DESCRIPTION (SPD). For employees and retirees. 10 Trillion / Year. For All of You. Supreme Court Visits ERISAclaim.com. For 193 Million Americans.
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The California Patient's Guide: Introduction
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The California Patient's Guide. Your Health Care Rights and Remedies. Strategic Advice For Patients: Tactics to Use and Understand. The patient denied treatment often finds oneself in an adversarial system. Your tactics must be those of negotiation. Everything is negotiable- with the HMO, the HMO doctor, the HMO hospital. In a negotiation, establishing what is reasonable is the goal. What should a reasonable person have to do in order to document his or her need for treatment? Who is the decision-maker?
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FTCR Websites - The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Right (FTCR)
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Patient Stories - Healthcare / Consumers for Quality Care (CQC)
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. HMO Leaves Test Results Unnoticed In File, Patient Dies After Two Major Strokes. Carol Stephens - Buena Park, CA. HMO Denies Quadriplegic Child Vital Therapy, Thus the Chance to Walk. Ethan Bedrick - Raleigh, NC. Delayed Benefits Costs Man His Testicles. Frank Wurzbacher - Covington, KY. HMO Fails Bone Cancer Patient. Shirley Moore - Union City, CA. HMO Denies $110,000 Surgery Recommended By Own Doctor, Patient Forced Into Debt. Casey Patelski - Iowa.
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Consumer Group Says Blue Cross of California $150K Fine for Overcharges is "Not Enough"
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. Jul 05, 2005. CONTACT: Jerry Flanagan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 319. Consumer Group Says Blue Cross of California $150K Fine for Overcharges is "Not Enough". On May 2, FTCR wrote a letter to the DMHC calling on the regulator to require immediate refunds, payments for other costs incurred by enrollees, interest, and to levy a fine against Blue Cross equal to the amount inappropriately removed from enrollees' bank accounts. To read the letter go to: http:/ ...
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Books from FTCR - The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Right (FTCR)
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Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom. And What You Can Do About It. Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health. By Jamie Court and Francis Smith. Silent Violence, Silent Death: The Hidden Epidemic of Medical Malpractice.
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Healthcare Factsheets
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HMO Arbitration Abuse Report. Casualty of the Day. On Blue Cross Rate Increases in Wake of Wellpoint-Anthem Merger. Testimony of Jerry Flanagan. Pat and Dave Parkers' Second Letter To Schwarzenegger. Regarding Anthem's Acquisiton Of Wellpoint. Since December we have been waiting for the phone call from you that your staff promised us when we tried to hand delivered a letter explaining our situation during your $10,000 per-skybox fundraiser at a Laker's game. more. FTCR compares the impact of the 1988 ins...