Insurers try to derail alternative care law
Insurers try to derail alternative care law
Nine insurance companies will try to appeal a state law requiring health insurers to cover alternative medical care, reports the (Tacoma, WA) News Tribune.
A three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the state's law on alternative care coverage did not conflict with a federal law that bars state regulation of employer benefit plans. The insurance companies had argued that the alternative care requirement interfered with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
The firms plan to ask for a rehearing before the Circuit Court of Appeal's full panel of 11 judges.
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