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STATE WedST"^ iav,A f - lay, April 12,2000 THE BATTALION Page 7 News in Brief feeoager accused >f sexual assault ICHMOND, Texas (AP) — A g ormer West Virginia high school ill ketl:)a ' 1 P |a V er has Pleaded in- I II III Kent to charges he sexually as- sauited a 6-year-old Texas girl. Blason Mark Allen, 18, of Sis- jrio's White House footagesBolivilie, W.Va., was arraigned i^ed at all. He was noiava Monday in Fort Bend County Dis- iut Tuesday's decisions tii ct Court, said Diana Adams, an rphy said assistant district attorney. Sunshine said thaCWreP^H is charged with aggra- always assumed that (lie vfted sexual assault of a child. dd he included.” He < Atjthe time of the April 1999 in cident, he was living in Texas, he consulted dunngikiBigheriff’s officials in Kanawha .ess ol the special. County, W.Va., have said Allen • He's perplexed thatthisbi..al$o is a suspect in the sexual e deal." he said. "Allhee assault of a 12-year-old girl in wants is for lots of peopk Si^sonville. 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He was in pfitical condition Tuesday at , ( AP) \smilingWhiti® Memorial Hermann Children’s d heavy scrutiny Monday 111 Houston, h anniversary tribute tolr^- lous,” Dionne Warwick,) lackstage. eduled to sing a medley of rest names in tk label'- i for Arista founder Djii- 'ii she was 19. Theft May 15 on NBC, ouston have swirkdlara ^ ins, a much-discussed# and a disjointed magaz! enied abusing drugs inti ore the Oscars, Houston* id Roll Hall ofFamedil > help induct Davis, irport security in HawaiisSl of marijuana in House' 1 ’ police to arrive, the 3(1)1 ■ flight and left the island oeen charged in the incite Bunny is coming! April 17th Earn $15 an Hour Counseling ed/ ALL MAJORS WELCOME! 5 IMOW^ er or Fall Semesteb ay 22-27 , 2000. t 21-26 , 2000. ra at 845-4427x133 tamu.edu/volunteerl Part-Time On Campus Cutting-edge Opportunity for Full-Time after Graduation Hiring Now for Summer &/orFall Apply On-line: inww.wiieup.com/rep Digital Textbooks HMO to allow doctors freedom "A lot of what is em bodied in the agree ment is not new business practices/' — Arthur Leibowitz Aetna's Chief medical officer DALLAS (AP) — A legal settlement with Aetna U.S. Healthcare, described as a landmark in the industry, prohibits rewarding or penalizing doctors over whether they limit patients’ health care. Texas Attor- ney General John Comyn and Aetna today were to an nounce the settle ment that could become a model for other health maintenance or ganizations. “The bottom line is this settle ment places med ical decision-making in the hands of doc tors and their patients, and Texans can rest assured that doctors won’t be penal ized for elevating patient needs above HMOs,” Comyn said. He said in a draft of a letter to state lawmakers that Aetna has agreed to set tle the lawsuit and take steps that will end any financial incentives to limit needed care to HMO members. Comyn’s predecessor, Dan Morales, sued Aetna and five other HMOs last year, accusing them of illegally compen sating doctors who limited patients’ med ical care and penalizing those who didn’t. Aetna, under the settlement, is pro hibited from fining doctors who exceed medical budgets or giving them bonus es for staying within limits. The state’s largest HMO also will have to report if doctors’ groups in its plan do give fi nancial incentives. The settlement was expected to quickly become a role model in other states, said Rocky Wilcox, chief coun sel of the Texas Medical Association. “It’ll get all over the country real fast,” said Wilcox. The settlement contains no finding of fault, fines or penalties. And Aetna denies any wrongdoing in the agreement that ends its involvement in the 1998 lawsuit. Morales had sought to fine Aetna $ 10,000 per violation for offering financial incentives for the medical care that physicians pro vide their patients. “A lot of what is embodied in the agreement is not new business practices,” Arthur Lei bowitz, Aetna’s chief medical officer, said. “This is par tially the attorney general’s desire to so licit other plans to fit within this busi ness model.” Comyn said he would use the agree ment as a model. If the other HMOs named in the lawsuit do not agree to the terms, the attorney general said, he will try them in Travis County state district court. The HMOs are Humana Health Plans of Texas, PacifiCare of Texas, NYLCare Health Plans of the South west and NYLCare Health Plans of the Gulf Coast. Aetna said it decided to settle the lawsuit and accept state regulatory oversight because it will help restore the public’s trust in managed care, said David Simon, the company’s chief le gal counselor. The company has 960,000 Texans in its HMO and 2.4 million members en rolled in all of its health-care programs. “We felt like if we could achieve this landmark settlement with Aetna, then Aetna’s competitors would then know this would set the standard for them as well,” said Cornyn. 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