Patient Groups Eye More Discrimination Complaints Against Exchange Plans

An HIV/AIDS patient advocate involved in a discrimination complaint against several Florida health plans offering products on that state's exchange is talking with advocacy groups covering a variety of diseases about filing similar challenges in additional states. At the same time, patient groups are seeking to sway CMS' review of insurers' applications to offer plans on the federally facilitated exchanges in the next open enrollment period, as they believe the agency last year didn't do enough to keep insurers from...