State roundup: Model insurance brings 'modest' savings

07/15/11 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' alternative quality contract, which Governor Deval Patrick has held up as a potential model for controlling health care costs, produced "modest" savings in its first year while yielding improved quality of care in some areas, according to a new study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.

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Federal Judge in Detroit Declares Case Against Blue Cross, Over its Denial of ABA Therapy for Children with Autism ...

07/14/11 DETROIT, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a case brought by families having a child with autism spectrum disorder against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Judge Stephen J. Murphy, III, today entered an Order granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification. The families filed suit against Blue Cross over its policy of denying applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy to children with autism ...

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Insurers Ordered to Cover Autism Therapy

07/15/11 The state Department of Insurance has taken action to get autism therapy covered. Regulators say Blue Shield has not complied with state law. It already requires that ABA, Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, be covered. It could be the breakthrough that families dealing with autism need.

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