Four former employees of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital (AIGH) in New York have filed a lawsuit against the school alleging workplace discrimination and retaliation of a sexist nature, according to the law firm filing the suit, McAllister Olivarius. The lawsuit alleges that after the school received a $12.5
Blue Shield of California has filed a lawsuit against the state's Department of Health Care Services alleging the department of failing to supply documents detailing plans for how it will contract with for-profit insurers who seek participation in Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. Blue Shield criticized DHCS for intending to award contracts to national, for-profit
Anthem has been accused of not verifying the accuracy of diagnosis codes it submitted when seeking reimbursements over a four-year span, and a federal judge has now ordered the insurer to face a lawsuit from the U.S. government. The suit alleges that the supposedly inaccurate diagnosis data allowed Anthem to collect tens of millions of dollars in annual overpayments. In the
The American Medical Association is accusing health insurer Cigna of underpaying claims filed by providers in the contracted MultiPlan network, the largest third-party network in the country. The AMA has joined a class-action lawsuit alleging the insurer reimbursed for claims at non-participating providers' rates rather than the expected MultiPlan contract rates. Cigna
A shareholder at in-home healthcare service provider LHC Group, which UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum is set to acquire, is suing the latter and its board of directors over the proposed merger, court documents show. Optum, which manages drug benefits and offers data analytics services and works with more than 100 health plans, announced the acquisition plan in March,