Scott Winslow, CEO of CRC Claims, helps organizations use ERISA to appeal insurance companies to gain full payments. The rule of thumb for ERISA is that anyone who gets benefits from their employer is covered; this includes health benefits. Full Article:  http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/erisa-can-help-health-organizations-obtain-full-reimbursement

The National Underwriter reports that the sixth annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Seyfarth Shaw LLP indicates an increase in workplace litigation for 2010, both in terms of settlements and exposure. The report examines class action and collective action settlements over the past year, including 715 class action litigation rulings. Full Article:  http://www.healthplanlaw.com/?p=1868

The final Health Bill recently passed by the Senate and the House Health bill passed earlier, specify the adoption of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) claim regulations in their entirety for all group health plans. The ERISA appeal process will soon be mandatory for all group health plans and healthcare providers as well as consumers.

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New Health Care Reform Bill, The Affordable Health Care for American Act, Was Passed by the House of Representatives Saturday Night, and Is Expected to Be Signed into Law by President Obama by the End of the Year. Provisions of the new law rely on the little understood ERISA law of 1974 which CRC is a unique, national, dedicated appeal processing expert.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, urged his colleagues Wednesday, October 14, to add an amendment to health care reform legislation that would strip health insurers of their limited antitrust exemption. Sen. Schumer, a co-sponsor of the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act introduced last month, made his call one day after the Senate Finance Committee
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Experts said the legislation under consideration does not significantly enhance patient protections against insurers refusing to cover requests for treatment. Most people currently have no right to challenge health insurers’ treatment decisions by suing them for damages.’ The Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) ‘bars suits for damages over health benefit decisions’ for the
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This month and a few months ago, the Arizona Department of insurance took the important step of imposing stinging fines on two major insurers for what had come to the departments attention regarding the insurers consistent violation of both State law as well as federal ERISA law of patients rights in the appeal process.