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Home Assessment-Related Misdeeds Costs Cigna Big

Published on Fri Oct 20, 2023

Bogus in-home assessments are part of the reason insurer Cigna has agreed to a big fraud settlement. The Cigna Group will pay $172 million to “resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting and failing to withdraw inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to increase its payments from Medicare,” the [...]
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