Mom’s insurance dropped – had stroke while uninsured.
State: TX
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield
Hello all, I'm trying to get some information to help my mother – I'm her son and she has named me her POA. She had a stroke back on 10/24 (No lasting damage besides her field of vision from what we can tell) and I found out that her health insurance had dropped her earlier this year.
She works for a nursing staffing company called Maxim. They require 120 hours a month to be eligible for health insurance, but only offer four hours of PTO per quarter. She had to take a trip to visit her aunt earlier this year and cleared it with Maxim ahead of time without being told she would lose her insurance.
I called them up and it sounds like they're scrambling to find better insurance. When I asked why she was dropped despite having her time off approved they said they're not allowed to deny time off requests and that there's nothing they could do about the 120 hour requirement.
I'm trying to get the name of the insurance involved, but this sounds extremely shady both on the insurance and company side. Does she have any kind of recourse?
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