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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Mark Curriden and J.C. Conklin
Mar. 27--Two Texas medical associations representing 37,000 physicians filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the nation's largest health care insurers of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy by systematically refusing to pay for medical treatments deemed necessary by doctors.
The Texas Medical Association, the Denton County Medical Society and dozens of individual physicians filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to reduce the role health maintenance organizations play in the relationship between doctors and patients.
The lawsuit names Cigna Corp., Humana Inc., Aetna Inc., PacifiCare Health Systems, Prudential Insurance Co., United Health Group and Wellpoint Health Networks as defendants.
Lawyers for the HMOs denied the charges and said they would not comment further because of the pending litigation. Representatives for most of the companies also declined to comment on the lawsuit.
Aetna issued a statement late Monday: "We will continue to aggressively defend these actions, and are confident that...
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