Discount health plans that provide few or no discounts, overstate benefits and send patients to phantom networks of physicians are illegal and should not be allowed to operate in this state, the California Medical Association testified today at a public hearing held by the state Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). DMHC has proposed regulations for discount health plans that would legitimize a product the California attorney general has already determined to be illegal. CMA encouraged DMHC to scrap the regulations and instead prohibit the discount plans from operating in California...
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