NU Online News Service, March 12, 2005, 2:28 p.m. EST
Lawyers working for a group of 12 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans say Southern California clinics may have billed their clients for more than $30 million in unnecessary procedures.[@@]
The clinics started an effort in 1999 to fly patients in for unnecessary colonoscopies, stomach endoscopies and nerve-deactivation procedures, according to the Blues’ lawyers.