Recently added articles from Transplant News:
Consumer Watchdog condemns WellPoint/Anthem refusal to cover Nehme's liver transplant.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Consumer Watchdog issued a statement condemning the refusal of WellPoint and Anthem Blue Cross of California to cover Nehme's liver transplant and linked the case to the need for health care reform in the US. The trial beginning next week targeting the nation's largest health ...
Four of nation's largest tissue recovery groups consolidate California services.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Four of the largest tissue-recovery organizations in the US announced in late September they have signed an agreement to consolidate their tissue recovery services in Northern and Central California under one organization. Under terms of a letter of intent signed by the ...
Consumer Watchdog joins second lawsuit involving liver transplant patient's death but not for denial of coverage.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Consumer Watchdog has also joined with the parents of a 17-year-old who died after her health insurer, CIGNA, denied a liver transplant to call on Congress to close the legal loophole that bars her family from having their day in court. The group was responding to an LA Times ...
Patient denied coverage for receiving transplant out-of-network suing Anthem Blue Cross; Oct. 14 trial date.
Oct 01, 2009 ... A trial beginning on October 14 in Los Angeles, CA, targeting the largest health insurer in the US, WellPoint and its subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross of California, for allegedly denying requests for out-of-network liver transplants will shine the light on the behind the scenes decisions ...
CDC to develop network to detect, prevent diseases transmitted by deceased organ, tissue donors.(Obituary)
Oct 01, 2009 ... As the number of organs and tissues transplanted in the US have grown steadily over the last 20 years, so have the number of new life threatening infectious diseases and malignancies transmitted by the life saving, life enhancing transplants. Today, there are more than a dozen viruses, ...