I heard this on the news. This is insane. Does the health insurer expect the couple to have their "heavy' infant to hit the treadmill or go to Jenny Craig???
Rocky Mountain Health Plans, a Colorado health insurer, announced in a press release Monday that they will cover "heavy" babies after a story revealed the insurer had denied coverage to a healthy infant who weighed 17 pounds.
"A recent situation in which we denied coverage to a heavy, yet healthy, infant brought to our attention a flaw in our underwriting system for approving infants," Steve ErkenBrack, president of the insurer said in a release Monday. "Because we are a small company dedicated to the people of Colorado, we are pleased to be in a position to act quickly. We have changed our policy, corrected our underwriting guidelines and are working to notify the parents of the infant who we earlier denied."
RAW STORY has learned that the parents of Alex Lange, the infant who was denied, will appear on Monday night's The Ed Show on MSNBC.
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