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From: MedicalHyperbarics.com [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:31 PM
Subject: Recompression Chamber Network To Stop Accepting DAN Insurance


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dallas, Texas, January 9, 2006: The Recompression chamber network branded
SSS (Sub-aquatic Safety Services), in service in a dozen popular dive
destinations worldwide (and in most cases the only chamber in a several
hundred mile radius), has been forced to notify the public that certain
facilities in some destinations effective immediately, and others
progressively so, will NO longer accept the Divers Alert Network (DAN)
AMERICA insurance as a payment method for hyperbaric chamber and medical
services.
 
It is hard enough to maintain the facilities available 24/7 with optimal
technical, administrative and operational readiness, but with the
underpayment and non-payment of bills, some over a year old by DAN America;
the chambers feel obligated to the diving public to remain open. To that end
the chambers can no longer tolerate unpaid services, and since the only
insurer in the world who has refused to settle our bills is DAN America,
thus some SSS chambers have no other choice but to ask DAN America patients
to pay for services when rendered and file the claims themselves with DAN
America for any possible reimbursement.  Please note that this action
applies only to DAN AMERICA. It does not apply to DAN Europe, DAN Southern
Africa, DAN Southeast Asia-Pacific or DAN Japan.

Divers are advised to check with their insurance carrier prior to travel to
secure verification of coverage.
 
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