A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit against Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group that alleged the nation’s largest health insurer wrongly received higher payments from Medicare based on false information about enrollee health problems that could have been corrected. The ruling, handed down late last week in the U.S. District Court for Central California, does not halt a …
A federal judge has thrown out one of the whistleblower lawsuits that allege UnitedHealth Group received larger Medicare Advantage (MA) payments because of supplying false information. U.S. District Judge John Walter of California’s Central District said the Department of Justice (DOJ), which is taking part in the lawsuit, didn’t show the insurer knew the claims submitted were false. Walter …
House Republicans Ask Court To Delay Their Lawsuit To Blow Up Obamacare Huffington Post Yesterday, 7:07 pm House Republicans want a federal appeals court to let them delay the next phase of their lawsuit against President Barack Obama that would have devastating consequences for the Affordable Care Act. A lower court this year ruled in favor of House Republicans’ claim that the Obama …
Nearly a dozen House Democratic leaders who fought to pass President Obama’s health care law in 2010 asked an appeals court Monday to toss a GOP lawsuit that accuses the administration of unlawfully reimbursing insurers under the program. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi , her top lieutenants and committee chairman said the Affordable Care Act allowed the Treasury to fund its cost-sharing …
The state will pay out an additional $85 million over the next 10 years to foster parents as part of a settlement agreement announced Monday. The settlement, which is subject to legislative approval, was brought by foster parents who argued the state’s foster care payments were woefully inadequate and have contributed to a shortage of foster parents. Kahaluu foster parents Raynette and Edward …
Michigan pays $378 million in lawsuit judgments, settlements over decadeMichigan paid more than $41 million, while receiving more than $278 million in lawsuit settlement and judgment payments over a year, a new report by the Senate Fiscal Agency shows. Here are seven things about lawsuit payments and settlements made and received by the state, according to the annual Senate Fiscal Agency’s …
Michigan taxpayers paid significantly less last year to settle lawsuits against their state government than they did in recent …