The Colorado Court of Appeals recently ruled against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company by reversing an earlier ruling that allowed the use of a computer database to determine medical cost reimbursements.
According to the Court, Pauline Reyher was injured in an auto accident and treated under her State Farm no-fault insurance policy, which at the time required State Farm to pay for “all reasonable and necessary expenses for medical services related to auto accidents.”
Dr. Wallace Brucker treated Reyher and submitted the charges to State Farm for reimbursement. State Farm then processed the charges through Sloans Lake Auto Injury Management medical database and recalculated the amount to be paid to Brucker. State Farm in turn compensated Brucker for an amount they considered reasonable, after consulting the database that showed other physicians in the area charged less for similar services.
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