Medical Care Suits

A Moreno Valley schoolteacher has sued Health Net, the state's second-largest health maintenance organization, for refusing to pay her maternity bills because she delivered her baby at a Health Net facility in Oceanside instead of at her "home" facility in Riverside. First-time mother Sara Israel said she was stunned when Health Net rejected her $5,000 medical claim, citing a policy that forbids women in their ninth month of pregnancy to travel more than 30 miles from their home clinic.

A Moreno Valley schoolteacher has sued Health Net, the state's second-largest health maintenance organization, for refusing to pay her maternity bills because she delivered her baby at a Health Net facility in Oceanside instead of at her "home" facility in Riverside. First-time mother Sara Israel said she was stunned when Health Net rejected her $5,000 medical claim, citing a policy that forbids women in their ninth month of pregnancy to travel more than 30 miles from their home clinic.