Senator Claire McCaskill, D-MO, is going after insurer Anthem on its policy to deny payment for emergency room treatments thatare later determined not to have been an emergency.

Modern Healthcare reportsthat according to Anthem, it changed its policy in Georgia andMissouri this past June, while it claims to have begun putting thepolicy in place in Kentucky as far back as 2015. However, that’s indispute by some medical personnel in Kentucky.

“We had no evidence that any claim was refused until about threeor four months ago,” it quotes Dr. Ryan Stanton, an emergencyphysician in Lexington, Kentucky, and a spokesman for the AmericanCollege of Emergency Physicians, saying in the report.

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