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United Healthcare faces $750K fine in Georgia
United Healthcare has been slapped with a $750,000 fine for delaying claims payment to doctors and consumers. The combined fine is also shared by sister companies United Healthcare of Georgia,... Read more...
UnitedHealth, Aetna sign with service bringing medical care to patient
In a move suggesting that old-fashioned house calls are still working their way back into the mainstream, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare have cut a deal with a service that brings primary-care clinicians... Read more...
Advocates outraged by CMS decision not to pay for virtual colonoscopies
Last week, CMS announced that it would no longer reimburse for virtual colonoscopies, otherwise known as CT colonographies. While several large commercial health plans cover the procedure, including... Read more...
Former RI hospital CEO sentenced to federal prison
Robert Urciuoli, former president and CEO of Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, RI, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiracy and mail fraud committed during his... Read more...
Trend: More medical practices require same-day deductible payment
In the past, most medical practices were content to collect co-pays from patients and go after health plans for the rest of what they were owed. They did this, in part, because they just weren't sure... Read more...
UnitedHealthcare contracts stop making no-warning fee changes
UnitedHealthcare has announced that it will soon revise contracts that allowed it to lower physician pay without notice. The change, which will affect about 70,000 doctors across the U.S., should... Read more...
CA group announces 2007 P4P results
California healthcare group Integrated Healthcare Association has announced the 2007 pay-for-performance program results and performance award winners. The IHA found that clinical quality and... Read more...
GA doctors sue state for access to contract terms
For the last few years, a group of physicians has been working to force the health insurer administering Georgia's state employee health benefits plan to disclose what it pays physicians around the... Read more...
UnitedHealthcare to pay $250K fine in Ohio
Health plan UnitedHealthcare has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle with the state's Department of Insurance over letters it sent to policyholders concerning a health system in its network. The... Read more...
UnitedHealthcare subsidiaries to pay $800K in fines
UnitedHealthcare subsidiaries have agreed to pay almost $800,000 in fines to settle allegations by the North Carolina Department of Insurance that they'd violated state law regarding claims payment... Read more...
