Maryland orders Cigna to halt underpaying doctors or give cause

Maryland regulators fined Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company $80,000 and ordered it to stop reducing payments on certain ...
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A doctor at Cigna said her bosses pressured her to review patients’ cases too quickly. Cigna threatened to fire her.

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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Former Cigna doctors confirmed that the review system was used to quickly reject claims. An internal corporate spreadsheet, viewed by the news organizations, lists names of Cigna’s medical directors ...
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Cigna Accused of Using AI, Not Doctors, to Deny Claims: Lawsuit

A new lawsuit alleges that Cigna uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to inappropriately deny "hundreds or thousands" of claims at a time, bypassing legal requirements to complete individual ...
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

When a stubborn pain in Nick van Terheyden's bones would not subside, his doctor had a hunch what was wrong. Without enough vitamin D in the blood, the body will pull that vital nutrient from the ...
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

This article first appeared at ProPublica and The Capitol Forum. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in ...