N.Y. AG Prescribes Subpoenas to UnitedHealth Group, Others
The nation’s largest health care insurer, four of its subsidiaries and a number of other large insurers are being served subpoenas — 16 in all — in a suit to be brought by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that charges the companies used “rigged data to manipulate the reimbursement rate to their customers who filed claims.”
At the center of the scheme, according to the attorney general, is Ingenix, Inc., “the nation’s largest provider of health care billing information, which serves as a conduit for rigged data to the largest insurers in the country.”
Cuomo notified Ingenix and its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, of his intent to file suit and subpoenaed 16 other companies, including Aetna, CIGNA, and Empire BlueCross BlueShield. The central allegation is that companies manipulated reimbursement rates. In addition to Ingenix, the suit is also encompassing three other UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries.
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Nobody could have anticipated ...
Nobody could have anticipated that organizations whose regular line of business involves denying their customers the services they have already bought and paid for, and wrangling over the denials sometimes until the customers give up and die, would stoop to illegally rigging reimbursement rates as well.
Gosh, I’m shocked.
With kind regards,
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young cuomo is surely
shaping up to be our next Big Hope. gosh i hope he’s real. it certainly seems so. good job, andy.
Good post, thanks
Thanks for keeping us up on this stuff.
he's following Spitzer's lead--
he was excellent on all this kind of thing.
all the talk of "electronic billing/records" etc--
this is the result—companies like this cheating for insurers.
Factcheck.org— Obama’s Inflated Health “Savings” — http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/…
“… Electronic health records can lead to fewer medical errors or bad drug interactions or duplicate tests. The systems could also allow doctors and hospitals to transfer or share patient records, shorten hospital stays, increase prevention efforts that lead to better health, and make getting a prescription filled as easy as hitting the send key. But all of that mostly reduces costs for the insurance companies paying the bills and, to some degree, uninsured patients who are footing the cost of their health care. …”