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Cigna Settles with Health Care Providers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Michael Chu
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On February 2,2004,U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno issued the final order and judgment authorizing a settlement between the HMO CIGNA Healthcare and the physicians who treated patients covered by CIGNA, ending the companys involvement in the larger class action In re Managed Care Litigation, which stil includes eight other HMOs. The settlement, estimated by plaintiffs experts to be worth 1.3 billion, mandates changes in the companys business and disclosure practices, establishes a non-profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of high quality health care, and guarantees at least 70 million in payments to the physicians. Similar in scope to the settlement approved between the physician class and Aetna Healthcare in October 2003,the settlement could potentially set a new standard for transparency and physician involvement in billing practices; however, much depends on the outcome of the remainder of the class action, which is set to go to trial later this year.

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Recent Developments in Health Law
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 2004 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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