Quick Post: Los Angeles Establishes Insurance Abuse Reporting Site

We have seen increased state activity taken to investigate health insurers.  Now, the City of Los Angeles city attorneys' office has set up a health insurance industry task force to look into insurer practices that affect patients financially and medically. As part of this task force, last week they launched a web site and invited patients, physicians, hospitals and insurance company employees to report problems with private insurers. The site is www.protectingtheinsured.org. The website states that the site is part of “a law enforcement investigation into potentially unfair business practices by health plans and health insurers, particularly with respect to their improper denial of claims for coverage made by consumers, or their cancellation of consumers’ coverage altogether.”

Link to LA Times Article: Lisa Girion Article