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Hepatologist Trotter told Richard O'Connor, PHP's medical director, that Hunter was too sick to travel. O'Connor replied that the patient could stay at Duke through the weekend, but if he stabilized during that time, PHP wanted him flown to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday. O'Connor also told Trotter, according to the insurer, that if Hunter's condition worsened over the weekend, Duke was "authorized" to perform a transplant...
Then, within hours, O'Connor was back on the phone telling Trotter that PHP wanted Hunter moved--not to Alabama this time but to the University of North Carolina Medical Center, a mere 20 minutes away...
...didn't ask that Hunter be sent to Chapel Hill, N.C., in the first place and why PHP's "authorization" was not a simple solution to the problem say a lot about managed-care coverage. O'Connor was unaware that his own company had a liver-transplant contract with UNC because it was really not his company that held such contracts in the first place. In the managed-care business, general-health insurers like PHP often farm out high-cost specialties like organ transplants to secondary insurers who "carve out" coverage of these procedures and do separate deals with hospitals...
Katherine O'Connor '99 also sent out an e-mailto approximately 300 students, asking for theirsupport...
Saves: Har--Dupuis 8; Pen--O'Connor 3.Seth H. PerlmanCrimsonDOWN AND DIRTY: A Harvard playerperforms a slide tackle as sophomore MATT EDWARDS(15) looks...