But a number of employees who had retired or recently left the company were denied similar payments.

For example, he would allow states to deny increased payments to families that have additional children.

Of the 121 who were told they would be denied payment, 62 had the transplant anyway.

The program also would have denied payments to single mothers who had working relatives living in the city.

But it is one thing to issue guidelines, and another to deny payment against a doctor's professional judgment.

He was also denied payment for some 18 months in unpaid leave pay accumulated over many years.

A16 Denied full payment, a funeral home dumped a corpse's body.

The Maine law says a doctor may help a patient "appeal a managed care plan's decision to deny payment for a service."

The 34-member panel decided to recommend a "bill of rights" for patients, including the right to appeal decisions denying care or payment.

In each case, the software only makes recommendations, leaving to the insurer the final decision on whether to deny payment.