{"id":23967,"date":"2025-02-05T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23967"},"modified":"2025-02-05T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:42:21","slug":"cigna-settles-lawsuit-over-covid-19-testing-for-2-9m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23967","title":{"rendered":"Cigna settles lawsuit over COVID-19 testing for $2.9M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cigna has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to reimburse members for COVID-19 testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit was filed in May 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff sought reimbursement after paying $250 for an out-of-network COVID-19 test, but Cigna covered only $51, claiming the lower amount was a negotiated discount.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cigna-settles-lawsuit-over-covid-19-testing-for-2-9m.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cigna-settles-lawsuit-over-covid-19-testing-for-2-9m.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Cigna has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,19,52],"tags":[1682,385,238,665,1683],"class_list":["post-23967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-pandemic","tag-covid-test","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-lawsuit","tag-out-of-network-charges-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967","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=23967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23968,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23967\/revisions\/23968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}