Court Rules Against United’s Offsetting Policy

By The Health Law Offices of Anthony C. Vitale | January 21, 2019
A pair of hands holding money with two fingers on each other.

UnitedHealth Group’s policy of withholding payments to out-of-network physicians and doctors in order to recover previous overpayments – a practice known as cross-plan offsetting – is not permissible and may even violate The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). That was the long-awaiting ruling from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued last week. The…

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