<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bad7c49e-7d3b-4a46-9b74-14ae14f57fd9/AF001495-D2CC-400A-9662-A036D02A76CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sfist.com/2009/09/25/womans_bleeding_breast_not_emergenc.php" href="http://sfist.com/2009/09/25/womans_bleeding_breast_not_emergenc.php" style="font-size: 11px;">sfist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfist.com/2009/09/25/womans_bleeding_breast_not_emergenc.php"><P>Sorry for the depressing way to start your Friday morning, but CBS 5's <A href="http://cbs5.com/local/insurance.claim.denied.2.1207332.html">Anna Werner has a pretty damn harrowing tale</A> of an insurance company, Blue Shield of California, twice denying a claim to a patient's breast tumor. It seems Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez woke up one morning back in April to find her breast bleeding from her nipple. Rightfully concerned, she darted to the emergency room where doctors told her she had a tumor in her breast.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sfist.com/2009/09/25/womans_bleeding_breast_not_emergenc.php"><BLOCKQUOTE>Doctors found a tumor and initially told her she had breast cancer. A biopsy later proved that assumption false; the tumor was benign. <P>But Miran-Ramirez said the real shock came when her insurance company,<STRONG> Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00</STRONG>.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF001495-D2CC-400A-9662-A036D02A76CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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