The Artvoice reported today that Blue Shield California twice refused to pay $2,700 emergency room claims by Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez, concluding that it was not a “reasonable” decision for her to go to the emergency room that morning when she awoke to a shirt saturated from blood with what turned out to be a breast tumor. Only after KPIX-TV reported the story did the insurance company pay the claim. Further, it reported that the National Women’s Law Center found that the laws of eight states permit insurance companies to deny health coverage to a battered spouse (as a “pre-existing condition”) since batterers tend to be recidivists.
Headway Of WNY Resource Guide Deadline Approaching
February 19, 2013
Headway of Western New York is ready to print its second edition of The Resource Guide for Brain Injury: A Practical Directory of Services in WNY for survivors of brain injury and their families. The first printing was distributed throughout the eight counties of WNY in which Headway