{"id":20364,"date":"2022-10-18T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20364"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:33:23","slug":"justice-department-sues-cigna-for-allegedly-exaggerating-conditions-of-medicare-advantage-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20364","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department sues Cigna for allegedly exaggerating conditions of Medicare Advantage members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Bob Herman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Justice filed a new lawsuit against Cigna Monday, alleging the health insurance company overcharged the federal government by purposefully inflating how sick its Medicare Advantage members were.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/10\/17\/doj-cigna-medicare-advantage\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/10\/17\/doj-cigna-medicare-advantage\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"21\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Bob Herman for STAT) The Department of Justice filed a new lawsuit against Cigna Monday, alleging the health insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[179,62],"class_list":["post-20364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicare-advantage","tag-justice-department","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20364\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}