WellCare, a publicly traded company that manages health coverage for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, is in trouble again. It seems to be the same scenario all over again, confused and mislead beneficiaries. Yup, the algorithms of health insurance are a confusing mixed bag today...
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I think every state could use an Andrew Cuomo. It is interesting now that Ingenix is gone that the industry still feels a need for such a tool. BD From his post as New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo has become a one-man health-reform show. WellPoint, the nation’s largest health insurer...
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It appears Ingenix is mentioned once more with the legal cases, but those cases are separate but with the same underlying issues of low payments made to the physicians for out of network charges. We also have the cases of balance billing in California that have also created a lot of havoc...
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