{"id":23842,"date":"2025-01-07T08:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23842"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:19:20","slug":"massachusetts-court-orders-unitedhealth-owned-insurers-to-pay-165m-in-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23842","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts court orders UnitedHealth-owned insurers to pay $165M in penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Massachusetts court has ordered three UnitedHealth-owned insurers to pay over $165 million for engaging in widespread deceptive practices that misled thousands of consumers into purchasing supplemental health insurance they didn&#8217;t need or couldn&#8217;t afford.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/massachusetts-court-orders-unitedhealth-owned-insurers-to-pay-165m-in-penalties.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/massachusetts-court-orders-unitedhealth-owned-insurers-to-pay-165m-in-penalties.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" class=\"wp-image-8964\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales.jpg 340w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scales-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A Massachusetts court has ordered three UnitedHealth-owned insurers to pay over $165 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,19],"tags":[1655,422,238,1654,57],"class_list":["post-23842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","tag-court-ordered","tag-health-insurers","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-penalties","tag-supplemental-health-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842","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=23842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23843,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842\/revisions\/23843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}