A class action lawsuit against a number of health insurers filed by a group of physicians has been dismissed by a Miami federal judge. The lawsuit claimed that the insurers had used claims processing software to delay, reduce and deny payments to hundreds of thousands of physicians
The judge dismissed all claims against UnitedHealthcare Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Coventry Health Care Inc.. These three companies were the last defendants as some of the other insurers in the case -- including Aetna, Cigna, HealthNet, Humana, Prudential and Wellpoint -- had settled for hundreds of millions of dollars during the past few years.
But United and Coventry continued to fight, and U.S. District Judge Federico A. Moreno has ruled that there is not enough evidence that the two insurers conspired to underpay doctors.
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