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Insurers to Keep Health Reform Benefits

Even if court rejects healthcare reform, insurers will retain some benefits mandated by the law.

By Alex Wayne, Bloomberg | Updated on June 11, 2012

UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. plan to retain some benefits created by the U.S. health-care overhaul even if the Supreme Court strikes down the law. The exception: Those involving people with pre-existing illness.

Customers of UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurer, can keep children on plans until age 26, get free preventive care and won’t face lifetime benefit limits, the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based company said yesterday in a statement. The insurer also won’t rescind policies except for cases of fraud and will retain a simplified appeals process for denials.

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