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Article: Health insurers must offer more transparency
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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House Bill 1525, relating to Medicaid, was designed to create transparency in the operations of both for-profit and nonprofit health insurers to protect the interests of patients and providers of services, such as doctors and hospitals. The insurers, who stand between providers and patients, as they determine who is eligible for insurance coverage, what treatments, procedures and services are covered, and to what extent they are covered, are in the position of manipulating payments to their own financial benefit over those of patients and providers.
CAPTION: The temptation to do so can be irresistible, especially for the for-profit insurers, but the temptation exists even for nonprofits. ...