Insured woman may face medical bills of more than $70K

KCRA News (Sacramento) ^ | July 9, 2014 | Sharokina Shams

[anonsquared]

A Stockton couple is worried that they may face a bill of more than $70,000 for a hospital stay that was initially covered by insurance.

Their health plan, Anthem Blue Cross, sent them a letter last month telling them that their insurance coverage has been canceled retroactively, back to the first day of the year -- and that they may be responsible for paying bills for medical care during that time. We called Anthem Blue Cross, and they said, ‘Well, we can cancel people whenever we want. We can do whatever we want,’” Xanttopulos said. A spokesman for Covered California did not answer questions from KCRA 3 Wednesday, but said the agency was looking into the matter.

[petitfour]

Sounds like State Farm. I was talking about insurance with our pediatrician recently. She was telling me how State Farm dropped her and her husband when they made a glass claim on their auto insurance. Then they dropped them from their homeowners policy for making a claim.