When your health insurer pays a claim late, the interest charge is supposed to make it think twice.

However, when it refuses to pay after sitting on a claim for two months, there is no automatic penalty. That?s why the Maryland Insurance Administration recently fined CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield $125,000 and ordered the state?s largest health insurer to clean up errors in claim handling.

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