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• Final Settlement of UnitedHealth Backdating Case

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  Last year, we discussed a preliminary settlement of allegations against the leadership of one of the US (and the world's) biggest health care insurance companies/ managed care organization. Now the settlement appears final, as reported by the AP and published in the NY Times,UnitedHealth Group Inc. moved closer to finally...

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• Ingenix settlements: don't drop your guard

  - 2009-03-01

  The recent Ingenix settlements have been hailed as "'an enormous step toward pricing transparency and consumerism in health care," but given the insurance industry's track record in sidestepping similar agreements, physicians have little cause to celebrate, or to lower their guard. If you haven't been following this issue, the...

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• UnitedHealth to close database, pay $350M

  - 2009-02-15

  As part of an agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, UnitedHealth Group has agreed to shut down a national billing database used by health plans to determine reimbursements to members who use out-of-network physician services. The billing database, which is operated by the UnitedHealth Group UHG subsidiary...

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• MVP drops Ingenix database in AG reimbursement probe

  - 2009-02-13

  MVP Health Care has agreed to stop using a database the state attorney general's office calls "defective and conflict-of-interest ridden" to determine reimbursement rates for out-of-network services. Attorney General AG Andrew Cuomo's office announced the agreement Feb. 5. The Schenectady-based health insurer did not contribute data to the Ingenix database,...

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• UnitedHealth agrees to close ingenix database

  - 2009-02-01

  As part of an agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, UnitedHealth Group has agreed to shut down a national billing database used by health plans to determine reimbursements to members who use out-of-network physician services. The billing database, which is operated by the UnitedHealth Group UHG subsidiary...

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• PointClear Data Confirms That Multi-Touch, Multi-Media Approaches Multiply Marketing Results

  - 2008-04-22

  Sales and marketing services firm PointClear, LLC, today offered insight into the value of multi-touch, multi-media direct marketing campaigns, based on data it collected working with more than 30 clients on over 50 separate programs in 2007. While providing outsourced sales lead management programs for companies that include CenterBeam, D&B,...

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• Fraud scheme among insurers investigated in N.Y

  - 2008-03-01

  Following a 6-month initial investigation, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced plans to file suit against UnitedHealth Group and four of its subsidiaries for allegedly systematically underpaying consumers for their out-of-network medical expenses. The attorney general claimed that UnitedHealth Group used faulty data from one of its subsidiaries,...

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• Insurance fraud scheme investigated in N.Y.: head of state task force alleges 'Ingenix is nothing more than a conduit for rigged information.'

  - 2008-03-01

  Following a 6-month initial investigation, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced plans to file suit against UnitedHealth Group and four of its subsidiaries for allegedly systematically underpaying consumers for their out-of-network medical expenses. The attorney general claimed that UnitedHealth Group used faulty data from one of its subsidiaries,...

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• Fraud scheme among insurers investigated in N.Y

  - 2008-03-01

  Following a 6-month initial investigation, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced plans to file suit against UnitedHealth Group and four of its subsidiaries for allegedly systematically underpaying consumers for their out-of-network medical expenses. The attorney general claimed that UnitedHealth Group used faulty data from one of its subsidiaries,...

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• State targets medical insurers

  - 2008-02-25

  Westchester County Association officials, while pursuing their legislative agenda for health care reform for a third year in Albany, have found an ally in the state attorney general's office. Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo recently announced his office's investigation of some of the nation's largest health insurance companies for allegedly scheming...

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