December 21, 2015
A class of Blue Shield of California customers urged a federal judge Friday to hold that the insurer's policy of refusing coverage for a back surgery the government approved nearly a decade ago under an exclusion for investigational procedures contradicts the provision's clear meaning.
July 14, 2015
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of Blue Shield of California customers seeking to overturn the insurer's policy of denying coverage for a back surgery it considers "investigational" despite having been government-approved for a decade.