Legal Opinion
Roberts v. United Healthcare Services, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 4, 2016No. B266393PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOFFSTADT, J.
Plaintiff Edward J. Roberts (plaintiff) enrolled in a private health plan offering benefits to persons 65 and over as well as disabled persons under the federally funded Medicare Advantage program (42 U.S.C. § 1395w-21 et seq.), and went to an urgent care center outside of the plan’s network for medical services; as a result, he was forced to pay a $50 copayment instead of the $30 copayment for in-network centers. Alleging that the plan’s marketing materials misled him (and other enrollees) as to the availability of in-network urgent care centers (and their smaller…
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