A while ago I blogged about ACC’s increasing propensity to call all injuries with long-term sequelae, “degenerative” (i.e due to wear and tear). Increasingly, patients are taking ACC to the tribunal (and often then on to court) and winning their case, despite ACC having an “expert opinion” from a tame specialist. Today there is an article [...]

Scrubone pointed me to this interesting post on claim rejection rates of American health insurance companies. I will reproduce the table below: As the NewsBusters site points out, Medicare denies claims at 1.7 times the average rate of insurers (4.05%), with only Aetna being in the same rejection league. In fairness to Medicare, I don’t [...]