Seattle Children's hospital suing Obamacare for no coverage.

[oreo]

Seattle Children’s Hospital is taking legal action to correct a “false promise” of Obamacare. With only two out of the seven plans offered under Washington State’s health-care exchange covering treatment at the hospital, one of the state’s key providers of specialized pediatric care, it will sue the state’s insurance commissioner for “failure to ensure adequate network coverage.”

“The exclusion of a major provider like Seattle Children’s for a major insurance network in this market is unprecedented,” said Dr. Sandy Melzer.

For instance, CBS reported that four-year-old Kate Fink was denied coverage at the hospital for a ruptured eardrum because the plan her family purchased on the exchange didn’t include Seattle Children’s in its network. The insurance company originally authorized treatment for the girl at the hospital, but the family found out four days later the decision had been reversed because the hospital was out of network. Melzer said this was not an isolated incident.

Seattle Children's Hospital Suing Obamacare after Denying Coverage to Kids | National Review Online

Oh isn't it just DANDY when the Federal Government takes over an industry like Health Care--

Welcome to your hope and change!

 

[william the wie]

This is a surprise?

 

[Mr. H.]

The whole goddamn thing is unprecedented. In its passage, planning, and execution.

 

[Greenbeard]

Oh isn't it just DANDY when the Federal Government takes over an industry like Health Care--

You've got a hospital trying to get its state insurance commissioner to force private insurance plans to contract with it and accept its reimbursement rates.

If there was ever a federal takeover of the industry, you wouldn't have situations like this.

 

[Antares]

What you AREN'T saying is that based on the coverage mandates and based on a viable rate structure in order ensure the companies ( the insurance company) they CANNOT pay the exorbitant costs demanded by the hospital.
Sorry pop your spin is STILL a lie...and your answer?

Let the Feds tell everyone what they can charge for everything.

 

[Greenbeard]

What you AREN'T saying is that based on the coverage mandates and based on a viable rate structure in order ensure the companies ( the insurance company) they CANNOT pay the exorbitant costs demanded by the hospital.

Private insurers not wanting to pay exorbitant reimbursement rates to this hospital is exactly what I'm talking about.

And this hospital taking legal action to try and force them to is the issue at hand.