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•  January 3, 2005  $15 million Arizona Department of Insurance Multi-State Settlement

•  Your Guide to Managed Care
•  Copy of Arizona’s Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Administrative Rules
•  Standards for Reasonable Investigation of Claims
•  Using URAC To Curb Denials And Appeal Claims
•  Discussion of the Cost of Usual and Customary Reductions

•  The Importance of Hospital Liens

HMO Patient Self-Defense Kit

AMA backs N.Y. surgeon in questioning plans' fee formula

Reasonable and Customary, or Just Arbitrary

Claim Denied? Says Who?

When an Insurance Company Breaches Its Contract

13 things your health insurer doesn't want you to know

How the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act can help you

New York fines Aetna and UnitedHealthcare $2.5 million for bungles

Emergency care: Know your rights

How to avoid a health insurance claim denial — and what to do when you can't

Need a doctor? Call a lawyer

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Christopher E. M. Maldonado - Director

    Telephone         602 308-1862

    Address            5045 North 12th Street Suite 136

                               Phoenix, Arizona 85014

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