Inside a $4.5M court award: Lawsuit questions Blue Cross' power

Source: Detroit FreePress


Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan -- a nonprofit created to keep health costs affordable -- has tried to derail physical therapy programs designed to save auto giants Ford and Chrysler millions of dollars annually, according to a review of hundreds of pages of e-mails and internal documents produced in a lawsuit against Blue Cross.


Blue Cross, the state's largest health insurer, strongly denies the allegations.
Yet an Oakland County jury disagreed this summer, finding the insurer wrongfully interfered with physical therapy firm TheraMatrix's efforts to create a program for Chrysler. TheraMatrix was awarded $4.5 million. Blue Cross has appealed.

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One of the reasons that the "nonprofit" can pay it's CEOs so well at the expense of the insured.