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CA State orders Aetna to stop improperly denying emergency claims; fines Aetna $500,000
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Medical Providers Fire Back At Cigna’s Motion, Telling The Judge That “Cigna Does Not Follow The Law, And It Misrepresents How It Actually Administers The Plans.” In the Reply Brief of Plaintiffs Advanced Gynecology and Laparoscopy of North Jersey, et al v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance, Medical Providers allege that Cigna appears to not more »
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Self-insured health plans nationwide should look to recover $30 to $45 billion in Plan Asset refunds from the past 10 years of successful plan assets TPA/ASO anti-fraud recoupments and managed care savings in both the public and private sector As we have written before, ERISA as well as other federal and state regulations have continued more »
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Self-Insured Employer Health Plan Administrators, Plan Sponsors, and key decision-makers would do well to heed the old adage: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In the ever-changing employer healthcare landscape, there has been an increasing group of professionals espousing “new solutions” that purport to offer substantial savings to self-insured employer more »
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Cigna “allegedly engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity that includes embezzlement and conversion of funds, repeatedly and continuously using the mails and wires in furtherance of multiple schemes to defraud.”
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In a Significant Ruling for All Plan Sponsors, Insurers and Medical Providers, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Sides With Medical Provider; Rules Plan Must Provide Third Party Repricing Documents & Methodologies Relied Upon by Plan to Determine “Usual, Reasonable and Customary Rates” and Medical Provider is Eligible for Statutory Damages; “Must be a Beneficiary” more »
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Health Care Service Corp, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield IL, has been sued for fraud on behalf of the City of Chicago and its taxpayers, for inflating claim charges in order to skim taxpayer dollars. As we have previously written, recent cases disputing “cross-plan offsetting” and improper cost containment activities have begun to see the more »
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Originally Published by By ROI-NJ, Anjalee Khemlani Trenton | Apr 30, 2018 at 6:55 am : https://www.roi-nj.com/2018/04/30/healthcare/sarlo-in-letter-to-muoio-asks-n-j-to-look-into-details-of-health-insurance-contracts/ Budget and appropriations chair has questions about reimbursements, audits. State Sen. Paul Sarlo has asked Treasurer Elizabeth Muoio about the state heath plans’ third-party administrators. Reining In health care costs continues to be a challenge for many corporations more »
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California’s insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients’ records when deciding whether to approve or deny care. Original story Story by Wayne Drash, on CNN California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expressed outrage after CNN showed him a transcript more »
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