Blue Cross Settles Doctors Claims for $128 Million
"The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and more than 30 Blue Cross health plans across the country agreed yesterday to pay $128 million to settle lawsuits brought by doctors who said that they had been underpaid on insurance claims.
The settlement, which resolves class-action claims filed by more than 900,000 doctors, requires Blue Cross plans to revise claims-payment procedures and set up independent review boards to decide billing disputes, according to court documents.
Archie Lamb, a lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., who represented doctors, said in a statement that the accord would “leave doctors with more time for patient care instead of dealing with what was a complex, cumbersome system.”
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