Data swap: New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that Health Net Inc. has agreed to stop using data from Ingenix to set its insurance rates and instead will contribute $1.6 million toward the creation of a new data source.
DATA SWAP: New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced
that Health Net Inc. has agreed to stop using data from Ingenix to set
its insurance rates and instead will contribute $1.6 million toward the
creation of a new data source. Cuomo had alleged that insurers have used
bogus data to set "out of network" rates and overcharge
patients. Woodland Hills-based Health Net has about 200,000 members in
New York state.
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