California Court Says Patients Can Sue Medicare HMOs
JULY 16, 2001 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3 George and Barbara McCall, California residents, sued their HMO and their primary care physician. They claimed that the HMO (PacifiCare of California) refused to refer Mr. McCall to a specialist when he needed a lung transplant, and that he was ultimately forced to disenroll from PacifiCare and seek…