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Cigna sued for refusing to cover COVID-19 testing

Life as we knew it completely changed in March, when the country began navigating the new normal of living in a pandemic. The novel coronavirus completely dominated the spring news cycle, and… Read More

UnitedHealthcare ordered to reprocess 67,000 behavioral health claims

Back in October, we shared a Bloomberg article about insurers violating the spirit of the The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. At the center of this story was a lawsuit… Read More

Cigna accused of fraudulently overbilling Medicare Advantage plans

In August, the complaint in a federal whistleblower lawsuit against Cigna was unsealed. In it, Cigna is accused of collecting billions of dollars in overpayments from its HealthSpring Medicare Advantage plans. How… Read More

What if a COVID-19 diagnosis could be used against health plan members?

If the ACA is struck down by the Supreme Court, the protection it provided for people with pre-existing conditions will no longer exist. Insurers will go back to being able to charge… Read More

Colorado’s attorney general takes the unusual step of intervening in a proposed United merger

The 2017 acquisition of DaVita Medical Group by UnitedHealthGroup had impacts across the country, but the strongest opposition to the deal came from the Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser, who took… Read More

United sued for overpayment recovery methods with employer health plans

Occasionally, insurers determine that they have overpaid providers for care given to their plan members. Sometimes providers determine they have been underpaid by payors for care given to plan members. With a… Read More

Oops! Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas pays big for billing mistakes

This March, after state investigators determined that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas had made major billing mistakes related to out-of-network emergency claims, the insurer agreed to pay a $10 million fine… Read More

Americans fight insurers for mental health coverage as suicide is on the rise

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, passed more than a decade ago, requires insurers to cover mental health care in a way that is comparable to other medical treatments. Yet,… Read More

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