{"id":3099,"date":"2016-06-06T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:05:56","slug":"regulators-probing-whether-health-net-is-stiffing-drug-treatment-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Regulators Probing Whether Health Net Is Stiffing Drug Treatment Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Chad Terhune for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>California insurance officials are looking into whether Health Net Inc. has improperly withheld payments to addiction treatment centers for months while the company investigates concerns about fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Insurance began an inquiry after receiving numerous complaints from substance-abuse treatment facilities statewide that Health Net had not paid them since at least January, according to providers questioned by the agency. Health Net is California\u2019s fourth-largest health insurer, acquired in March for $6 billion by Centene Corp., a St. Louis-based insurer. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/regulators-probing-whether-health-net-is-stiffing-drug-treatment-providers\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30279148&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8DUKHvpSGwO4Wl5Da9BMv8SmMn9GEN3FuSFYnle4Q6BXONnL8j6zK6jHGOvsnz1he026E2x2TMCCMxFqUPpQ6Dd78TQA&amp;_hsmi=30279148\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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