Define Pre-existing Condition for health insurance coverage Posted: 10-30-07 11:06am
Can anyone answer this question? If
someone without insurance is diagnosed and
treated for a minor ailment (a rash, or
skin infection, or something of a
presumably limited course that is expected
to respond right away to treatment), then
gets health insurance, goes back for a
follow-up on the "minor ailment" and
doctors decide or discover that it is
something much more serious; does the
insurance company now regard this as a
pre-existing condition even though the
original complaint was diagnosed and
treated as one condition, and now a
different condition (but the same
complaint/symptoms) is diagnosed and under
treatment?
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