California Supreme Court will hear CMA lawsuit against Aetna regarding the right of membership organizations to pursue unfair practices lawsuits
July 30, 2021
Area(s) of Interest: Advocacy
The California Supreme Court has granted the California Medical Association’s (CMA) petition for review in a lawsuit against Aetna surrounding the insurance company’s practice of denying patients’ rights to out-of-network benefits and threatening physicians who refer patients to out-of-network providers.
The decision is a major legal victory for CMA, and for patients throughout California. The California Supreme Court receives over 1,000 civil petitions for review annually but only grants around 2-3% of those requests.
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This is reposted with the writer s permission from her blog on medical topics. She s a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a past president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.
By Dr. Karen S. Sibert Every death related to anesthesia is a tragedy, especially when a minor procedure such as a colonoscopy leads to a completely unexpected death. Everyone knows that open heart surgery carries a mortality risk, but few of us walk into the hospital for a colonoscopy thinking that death is a plausible outcome. We know so few facts at this point about what happened Jan. 21 at Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital. The patient who died, 51-year-old Richard Curbelo, walked into the hospital for a routine colonoscopy.
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THURSDAY NEWS HIT - The state GOP is making several competing moves against the governor as it seeks to gain leverage in Lansing as the lawmakers and Gretchen Whitmer look forward to another contentious year of politics at the Michigan capital.
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The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman
Richard Curbelo and fiancée Connie Strong To the visiting NorthStar Anesthesia staff attending to Richard Curbelo last Thursday, he was just another patient, one of about eight to 10 they’d sedate that day working in Beaumont Royal Oak’s ground-floor endoscopy suite. To Connie Strong, a mental health professional living across the border in Windsor, Curbelo was the “kind, loving, and compassionate” man she planned to marry next month in the Southfield home Curbelo shared with his 79-year-old mother, who has dementia.