91.   Would have allowed patients to sue health-maintenance organizations for denying coverage of treatments.

92.   Yet she and others say appeals processes in some plans start with the very managers who denied the coverage in the first place.

93.   Patients would also get expanded rights to sue their health plans if harmed when coverage was denied.

94.   Already, congressional leaders are introducing legislation to prevent insurance companies from requiring genetic testing or using genetic information to deny coverage or set rates.

95.   He said committee members had agreed on a crucial provision establishing an appeals process for patients who disagree with health plan decisions to deny coverage.

96.   HOME accused Nationwide of denying coverage to applicants in black neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.

97.   Patients also would have more ways to appeal decisions denying them coverage.

98.   People who are denied medical coverage will have their appeals heard by state review boards rather than insurance companies under a new Wisconsin law.

99.   The measure also would allow patients to sue their HMOs in federal or state court if such coverage was denied and the decision caused irreparable injury or death.

100.   Under the strict birth control program, medical insurance coverage was denied to mothers from the third child and sterilized couples were favored in lotteries for apartments.