{"id":25732,"date":"2026-03-20T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25732"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:19:51","slug":"humana-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-tobacco-surcharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25732","title":{"rendered":"Humana hit with class action lawsuit over tobacco surcharges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former Humana employee filed a class-action lawsuit March 17 alleging the insurer improperly deducted a tobacco surcharge as part of its medical coverage, according to a court filing in the U.S. District Court for western Kentucky.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/legal\/humana-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-tobacco-surcharges\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/legal\/humana-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-tobacco-surcharges\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/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: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A former Humana employee filed a class-action lawsuit March 17 alleging the insurer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200],"tags":[385,238,665],"class_list":["post-25732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732","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=25732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25733,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions\/25733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}