ERISA - Related Articles by
Michael A. McKuin

Medical & Disability Claims FAQs: ERISA

Long Term Disability Claims:
If you have one, expect the fight of your life.

Deferential Standard of Review:
This is what makes ERISA your worst nightmare.

Managed Care:
A concept that dovetails with ERISA. It's net effect is to increase profits for insurance companies, while denying necessary treatment to patients.

Medical Necessity Claim Denials:
This is the vehicle used to carry the "Managed Care" fraud into effect

Into The Abyss
How ERISA can further compromise the rule of law as we know it.

Coverage of Inpatient Rehabilitative Care:
(For psychiatric problems, alcoholism and/or other substance abuse problems)

Acute Care vs. Rehabilitation:
Managed care and claims personnel often refuse to understand the difference?

The "Stop-Loss" Shuffle:
Or how to write insurance without writing insurance, while simultaneously side-stepping the fiduciary responsibilities imposed by ERISA

The "IME / TSA Swindle"
If Machiavelli were an insurance claims adjuster, he would have loved this one.

Multiple Employer Trusts.
The legacy of the METs of the 1970s and 1980s

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