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Cigna Group to Pay $172 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Published by the United States Department of Justice | View article on www.justice.gov
United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that the Cigna Group (“Cigna”), a national insurer with corporate offices in Philadelphia, has agreed to pay $172,294,350 to resolve allegations that it violated the civil False Claims Act by submitting and failing to withdraw inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to increase its payments from Medicare. Of this amount, Cigna will pay $135,294,350 to resolve allegations arising from an investigation based out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
United States Reaches $37 Million Settlement Of Fraud Lawsuit Against Cigna For Submitting False And Invalid Diagnosis Codes To Artificially Inflate Its Medicare Advantage Payments
Published by the United States Department of Justice | View article on www.justice.gov
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry Leventis, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, and Naomi Gruchacz, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), announced today that the United States has settled a civil healthcare fraud lawsuit against THE CIGNA GROUP and its subsidiary Medicare Advantage Organizations (collectively, “CIGNA”).