Doctors Seek to Sue Blue Cross

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California’s largest physician organization on Tuesday asked to join patients in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Blue Cross illegally dumps policyholders after authorizing expensive medical treatment and then refuses to pay the bills, the Los Angeles Times reports.


The request by the California Medical Assn. came a week after the state’s hospitals filed a motion to join their own classaction suit with the patients’ case in Los Angeles County Superior Court. If the association and the hospitals are allowed to intervene in the suit, patients would gain two powerful allies in their dispute with Blue Cross of California, the state’s largest health insurer.


The company has been in confidential mediation with patients’ lawyers for months, and in November state regulators sent representatives to the talks in what was seen as an effort to persuade Blue Cross to change its practices.


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