Two UnitedHealth Group executives appeared before a Senate panel on March 31, 2009, about the reports that the group short-changed customers’ medical bills for out-of-network care.
Getting help paying for your medical bills after being involved in a car accident causes a lot of stress for the people involved. Depending on the extent of your injuries, your medical bills can be quite costly. Our clients’ health is invaluable because as long as you have your health you can make sure everything else is taken care of in your life.
That’s why our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys feel that a settlement that pays for all parts of your medical treatment is our first priority.
Professional attorneys, such as the ones working for us who handle personal injuries, make sure our clients get everything they deserve in a settlement with regards to getting help paying your medical bills if you are involved in a serious accident, like a car crash. Often times you are not able to work when you have been hurt, so your lost wages should be made up for in some way to help you get back on your feet, physically and financially.
The specific case being made was whether databases run by a UnitedHealth unit allowed insurers to cheat consumers on payment of medical bills for using doctors out of the insurers’ own networks.
Representing UnitedHealth were chief executive Stephen J. Hemsley and Andy M. Slavitt, the head of their database business known as Ingenix. The database came under inspection by New York’s Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo who found Ingenix was responsible for underpayments to New York customers of as much as 28 percent.
Cuomo reached a settlement with UnitedHealth in which the company agreed to spin off its databases into an independent entity. UnitedHealth also reached a $350 million agreement to settle private litigation for its payment of out-of-network claims, but that settlement has not been approved by the court.
When it comes to your health, our personal injury attorneys in San Diego do not take it lightly, and neither should you.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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