Back in September California regulators were digging around and were looking to fine United Healthcare subsidiary Pacificare $10 billion in fines, based on data found in audits. We all know that getting a judgment and collecting are 2 different issues and some get settled out of court too. In 2008 Pacificare...
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This is a large number of violations stacked up here by the State, 992,936 with a fine of 10k for each violation. This could stand to be the largest fine in US history against a health insurance company. United Health Group is appealing the process of course. When United took over Pacificare...
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How many more new plan offerings can we sift through? As soon as the payment algorithms and business models change, we have new plans and this is a cycle that doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon, so as consumers, even with the help of HHS and the nice website they devised what could be here today...
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It has been a few years since United Healthcare purchased Pacificare, thus the name still exists and in some areas consumers have already been shifted to new types of policies. This conflict with St. Joseph has been ongoing for quite some time. Many others are also dropping HMO type contracts...
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It has been 4 years and the process is finally taking place with the rebranding after the purchase of PacifiCare by United. As this article reads it appears that patients need to re-apply to select a plan from United HealthCare they feel would best suit their needs. No word on whether or...