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Aetna reimburses overcharged students, underpaid doctors
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 4, 2008
Aetna is sending checks to members and doctors after discovering mistakes in its payment calculation for out-of-network doctors.
The payments affected were for care for students insured by Chickering, its student health business. Aetna bought Chickering in 2003 but is reprocessing Chickering claims dating back to 1998, said Aetna spokeswoman Cynthia Michener.
She said the company was still calculating exactly how many people were affected, but said, "It will be a small percentage of out-of-network claims."
Karin Rush-Monroe, another Aetna spokeswoman, said more than half the reimbursements to students and doctors were for less than $10.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/08/04/bibf0804.htm.
