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2.   And few health plans would risk legal liability by denying treatment that an external review deemed necessary.

3.   And nationally there is no rush among managed care companies to create federal external review legislation.

4.   Both Kansas and Missouri offer external review procedures for such disputes in some cases.

5.   A better solution, they argue, is to define and mandate external review through law.

6.   A number of companies have eased requirements for previous approval of medical treatments and established external review boards that can reconsider the denial of care.

7.   After all, the number of people who are likely to take advantage of external review is minute.

8.   But external review also raises troubling problems that no one yet knows how to resolve.

9.   But in those cases, the patients would have a higher burden of proof than if they had prevailed in the external review process.

10.   But some officials say the external review process is not going to be all that beneficial for customers.