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Medicare agency orders Anthem parent to halt enrollments

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has ordered WellPoint Inc., parent company of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, to stop enrolling Medicare beneficiaries and marketing its plans to them for now due to "significant compliance problems."

WellPoint Agrees To Pay $11.8M to California Hospitals Over Health Insurance Policy Cancellations

WellPoint on Monday agreed to pay $11.8 million to about 480 private and public hospitals in California to resolve allegations that subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross failed to pay the bills of patients who had their health insurance policies canceled after they received treatment, the Los Angeles Times reports (Girion, Los Angeles Times, 7/8).

Insurer fined $20M for lax practices

State insurance regulators have fined HealthMarkets Inc. $20 million following a market conduct exam that found fault with consumer disclosure and agent oversight.

Cuomo to Sue UnitedHealth Over What’s Reasonable Payment

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is rattling the insurance industry’s cage again. He just said he plans to sue UnitedHealth as part of a broad probe into how insurers pay doctors and hospitals that aren’t in the companies’ networks.

California AG investigates insurance companies pattern of denial of claims.

The California attorney general's office opened an investigation Thursday into allegations that the state's largest health insurers were rejecting medical claims at alarming rates.

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