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Mulund-based Karunakar Shetty underwent a coronary bypass in 2003, and intimated the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd Co and third-party administrator Raksha TPA of this on July 17, 2003.

A district consumer forum has decreed that a cardiac patient cannot be denied his insurance even if he has not mentioned hypertension and diabetes as pre-existing ailments.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Bridgett Sammon is driven by money. That is, the money of local doctors. Sammon, who has been in the medical billing business for more than 12 years, believes that medical providers are leaving a lot of money on the table in unpaid insurance claims.

Private insurers will be required to cover certain preventive benefits -- such as mammograms and colonoscopies -- without requiring patients to pay deductibles or copays, according to rules issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). United States - Mammography - United States Department of Health and Human Services - Health - Insurance