Recent activities of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Qui Tam whistleblowers reveal that Medicare Advantage Plans remain at the forefront of investigations for violations of the federal False Claim Act (“FCA”) for...more
6/12/2017
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Risk Adjustment Formula
As reported in earlier blogs, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has been actively looking into potential abuses by Medicare Advantage (MA) Organizations as to allegedly improper risk adjustment claims submissions and...more
5/26/2017
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UnitedHealth
In our prior blog post, we reported that, at the request of the federal Department of Justice, the FCA qui tam whistleblower lawsuit in the case of United States ex rel Benjamin Poehling v. United HealthGroup, Inc., et. al....more
In a court decision last year in Swoben v. United Healthcare, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that an allegation – that a Medicare Advantage Plan performed a “biased” HCC-RAF retrospective...more