TGIF

It has been an odd workweek due to the middle of the week holiday. But today is Friday.

The FEHBlog has been following with interest Aetna's efforts to curb pricing abuses by out-of-network doctors in New Jersey and California, among other states. Because the medical industry is always willing to take on the evil insurance industry (best defense is a good offense)  the FEHBlog was not surprised to read a Hartford Courant report that earlier this week the Los Angeles and California Medical Associations have sued Aetna for interfering the efforts of patients to see out-of-network doctors.  The FEHBlog wonders how the doctors in Aetna's network feel about this development.