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December 30, 2020 After nearly eight years of litigation, on Monday, Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed a complaint by LifeWatch Services Inc. against Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and five plan administrators alleging that Blue Cross violated federal antitrust laws in a conspiracy to deny coverage of LifeWatch’s telemetry monitor products.
At least 30 Blue Cross insurance plans for more than 10 years have abided by a policy that denies coverage of telemetry monitors, devices that detect changes in cardiac rhythm. “The insurers reached this decision despite multiple medical studies concluding that telemetry monitors are effective and, in some cases, superior to other cardiac monitoring devices,” the court explained.