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US Insurers Warming to Medical Tourism

Sending patients to India, elsewhere could save $20B a year

MSNBC MSNBC Jun 30, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you’re in need of high-priced surgery, your insurance company might have a plane ticket for you. Insurers are starting to warm to “medical tourism” for the same reason uninsured Americans are: Surgery is significantly cheaper overseas. At least 150,000 Americans go abroad for medical procedures every year; insurance typically covers just a handful, but the number is rising rapidly, MSNBC reports. More »

Was Company at Fault in
Teen's Death?

Edwards champions cause of young patient, but case is not clear

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Jan 7, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Seventeen-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who died waiting for a liver transplant in December, has become the poster girl for John Edwards' call for a government-run health plan. Insurance giant Cigna denied her family's claim for the procedure, then reversed its decision a month later. She died shortly thereafter. But the story isn't as clear-cut as Edwards suggests in his stump speeches, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

More about:  John Edwards • health care • insurance companies • Cigna • Nataline Sarkisyan

'They Took
My Daughter
Away From Me'

Family plans to sue insurer after teen dies awaiting liver transplant

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Dec 21, 07 7:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The family of a 17-year-old whose insurer had refused to OK a liver transplant plans to sue the company in the wake of the girl's death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Leukemia patient Nataline Sarkisyan died after Cigna HealthCare refused to fund the transplant despite doctors’ recommendations. After online and public protests, the company relented, but the decision came too late. More »

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