HMO not “insurer” participant is not entitled to compensation under the LA.
NEW ORLEANS - one fifth of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Panel on December 8 that the maintenance of a health organization (HMO) is not an “insurance” in Louisiana are subject to a law on the prohibition of coordination of benefits and for an HMO, participants can not claim that the HMO against the application of a legal right to request transfer of health previously paid, participants in the unlawful act Recovery (Julio C. Arana v. Ochsner Health Plan, No. 01-30922, 5th Cir., 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 24665 See August 2003, page 14).
The detention of a July 10, 2003, en banc decision of the Fifth Circuit, the group decided not to issue conflict with ERISA exists, because participants against the assertion of the HMOs are not considered as a matter of Law of the LA.
A petition for rehearing and a petition for rehearing en banc: January 7.
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