81. -- Virtually all health plans cover pre-existing conditions for people who remain with the same company and merely change plans during the annual sign-up period. 82. -- Require health plans to pay for emergency coverage of problems that the average person would consider potentially severe. 83. - Some health plans are making alternative care more accessible to their members. 84. -- Your right to file grievances with your health plan and the Department of Managed Health Care. 85. -- The department rarely takes enforcement or disciplinary actions against health plans, and never has used its authority to levy fines for quality of care violations. 86. A contributing factor, Marsh said, is that health plans and employers are demanding more and more of the rebate money that drug plan managers receive from manufacturers. 87. A doctor-created health plan would assume the financial risk of treating patients, which stops doctors from overcharging and thereby driving customers into rival plans. 88. A few cost-cutting programs, however, have gotten some health plans in trouble. 89. A coalition of labor, consumer, civic and health advocacy groups Thursday denounced the health plan put forward by Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican leader. 90. A health plan asks a new mother to leave the hospital one day after her baby is born, instead of the usual two or three. |