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Regulators tell HealthMarkets to improve practices
USA Today, January 9, 2008
Texas based insurer HealthMarkets must improve its business practices--from training agents in ethics to speeding claims payments--following an unusual multistate probe prompted by numerous complaints. HealthMarkets faces a range of possible sanctions, including fines or being forced to re-assess denied claims.
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