This settlement was a long time coming and it appears now it’s on the way for over $9 million. You may or may not remember when this lawsuit was filed against United Healthcare/Ingenix subsidiary six years ago so you can use the link below to read up. This …
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How many companies used the Ingenix Data Base one has to question. While current Ingenix had a name change to Optum Insights a couple years ago and I think all the lawsuits might have had something to do with that. Another United Healthcare (Ingenix) Laws…
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Here we go again, back to those Ingenix algorithms and business models, getting a rerun of sorts of what occurred in 2011. In 2011 there was one main lawsuit from the AMA along with many others that were filed (some being still settled) over using formulas t…
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We all know the home drug infusion business is growing as companies send out technicians and clinical personnel to administer treatments at home versus making a trip to the hospital or to the doctor’s office. This is yet one more subsidiary added to the app…
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Here we go again. If you haven’t figured this out yet, when you buy a Cigna Health insurance policy you get a two for one with 2 insurers. Cigna provides the insurance benefits and then it’s pharmacy benefit manager, PBM OptumRX (biggest revenue sector subs…
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How many people know that Optum has a bank? They don’t offer any retail services outside of an Health Savings Account to the public but many companies offer this for people who have a high deductible health insurance policy. You can Argus Analytics Produces…
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You can read the CMS Sanctions Cigna-No More Selling Any New Medicare Advantage Policies Until Algo Problems Denying Medical Coverage and Prescription Denials Are Fixed United Healthcare Having a Big Bond Sale to Finance Purchase of Catamaran Pharmacy Benefi…
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This is interesting and it could be due to the 8 month extension given QSSI expiring and maybe HHS/CMS decided not to renew? There could be other reasons as well. Our current head of Medicare, Andy Slavitt was the former CEO of this United Subsidiary and mo…
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First question out of the barrel might be “how can that be”. It’s really not too difficult to figure out. A short while back United Healthcare bought a pharmacy benefit manager named Catamaran, and actually took on $10 billion in debt to acquire them. This…
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