Health insurance giant Aetna voluntarily dismissed its overbilling lawsuit against medical group Mednax on July 14, ending the legal process it initiated in 2018, Healthcare News reports.
The suit alleged that Mednax, based in Sunrise, Florida, racked up more than $50 million in improper payments as a result of unnecessary neonatal testing.
In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Aetna accused Mednax of amplifying the concerns around neonatal clinical conditions, using them to order unnecessary tests and thus inflate medical bills, in a process known as upcoding. Read more.
