AHIP Statement on New York Attorney General's Announcement

WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, today issued the following statement:

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"Attacking an industry with innuendo and intimidation is a page out of the trial lawyers' discredited playbook. At a time when working families and small businesses in New York are struggling to keep up with rising health care costs, it's disturbing that the office of the attorney general would focus on increasing reimbursements to the small number of physicians who do not participate in health plan networks and charge rates that are more than double what Medicare pays. New Yorkers deserve to know whether these actions will push medical costs even higher."

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