{"id":24972,"date":"2025-10-01T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24972"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:26:45","slug":"court-orders-humana-to-pay-32m-in-fees-following-false-claims-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24972","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Humana to pay $32M in fees following False Claims case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal court ordered Humana to pay more than $32 million in attorneys\u2019 fees, costs and interest following the resolution of a False Claims Act case in 2024 over the company\u2019s Medicare Part D bids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Sept. 19 order, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky directed Humana to pay $27.9 million in attorneys\u2019 fees and $2.7 million in costs and expenses, plus post-judgment interest accruing since August 2024. The payment, totaling $32.2 million, was due Sept. 24.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/legal\/court-orders-humana-to-pay-32m-in-fees-following-false-claims-case\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/legal\/court-orders-humana-to-pay-32m-in-fees-following-false-claims-case\/\">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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A federal court ordered Humana to pay more than $32 million in attorneys\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,19,15],"tags":[1922,1923],"class_list":["post-24972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-false-claims-case","tag-medicare-part-d-bids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24972","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=24972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24973,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24972\/revisions\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}