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Court: QIOs must tell complaining seniors more. (QIOs).

Publication: Medicine & Health

Publication Date: 30-JUN-03
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COPYRIGHT 2003 Thomson Financial Inc.

A Medicare quality improvement organization must tell a complaining beneficiary, at a minimum, whether or the QIO believes the beneficiary's treatment met "professionally recognized standards of health care."

So said a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a June 23 opinion, which affirmed a 2001 trial court decision...

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