Court Awards Payments in Class Action Lawsuit Against UnitedHealth February 14, 2012 Advocacy, News, Payment Managed Care Advisory Group, UnitedHealth, UnitedHealth Group UCR Settlement 0 A federal court judge has cleared the way for nearly $200 million in awards to be disbursed to physicians through a settlement against UnitedHealth Group. This disbursement would settle claims from physicians for 15 years of artificially low payments the insurer paid for out-of-network health services. Physicians who filed a claim with UnitedHealth should expect to receive their check soon. Spearheaded by the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association (AMA), the California Medical Association and other state medical societies, this decade-long legal battle exposed a fundamental conflict of interest at UnitedHealth. The Litigation Center’s work with organized medicine, state regulators and U.S. senators succeeded in calling into question the system for paying out-of-network medical bills, which has been controlled completely by insurers. For more information about the settlement award distribution, click here. Comments are closed.
