HMO
Negligence
Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are managed care organizations
that contract with hospitals, doctors and other health care providers to
provide medical care to individual members.
HMOs are usually for-profit companies with stockholders to answer to.
Unfortunately, sometimes, HMOs can be more interested in protecting
stockholders and bottom line dollars, and not in protecting the health of
their individual members.
HMOs make decisions over the health care of their individual members
through the hospitals, doctors and other medical providers they contract
with. Those treatment decisions can be careless and can result in
injuries to members.
| Examples of HMO negligence: |
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| - Failure to run diagnostic tests |
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| - Failure or delay in treating an emergency condition |
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| - Failure or delay in transferring a patient to a
competent medical provider |
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| - Failure or delay in making referrals to physicians and
hospitals outside the HMO network |
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| If you or a loved one has been harmed by a decision of an HMO or
one of its medical providers, there may be a legal claim for
compensation. We will be happy to discuss your legal rights and
remedies with you. |
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