In Health Case, Insight Into Cuomo Record as Attorney General.

The letter arrived in the New York State attorney general's office in late 2006 -- a desperate note from a woman in Yonkers with ovarian cancer. Her health insurer's reimbursements were so inexplicably low she was drowning in unexpected bills. Andrew M. Cuomo learned about the woman, Mary Reinbold Jerome, days later, soon after he was sworn in as the state's 64th attorney general, and he quickly saw that her predicament was part of a much larger problem: more than a dozen large health insurers were routinely using flawed data to shortchange consumers for reimbursements on out-of-network medical costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]