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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. Deputies were in-
ibout global warming." veptigating that crime when
Hie special, with “20/20"i Allen’s name arose in connection
(Chris Cuomo as host, k wi P the Texas sexual assault,
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,t. urban sprawl in Atlanta p^ 01 said -
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head-on collision
J WALLIS (AP) — Four people,
,,, , Including three teen-agers, were
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rmed to the court in ^ M un d lane of Texas 36, just south
teanngs that focusedonil 0 f Wallis, when his 1976 Ford col-
icnt against him, alsosaic a igge Lincoln Town
the cordial natureoIIusk c ar carrying four people, accord-
trast to the rough and ttrfjjg to the Texas Department of
Public Safety.
to believemyselfhesailra Qhl, from Wallis, was killed
,'s. no huge egos, no cabal: along with three teens in the Lin-
■ m a team to heat another:; coin: driver Amanda Majewski,
d the first unkind words’ 19; and passenger Tiffany Mewls,
■9; and Cassidy Schoppe, 13.
1 One person in the Lincoln,
mston attend ; 12-year-old David Schoppe, suf-
, fered internal injuries and sev-
Clive Davis oral broken bones. He was in
pfitical condition Tuesday at
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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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