Medical practitioners are up in arms, saying the scheme is forcing them to hand over clinical notes and intimidating them into paying debt that has long prescribed.
Discovery Health has come under fire from medical practitioners for unethically "clawing back" claims it had approved and paid, well past even the three-year common law prescription period.
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