UnitedHealthcare has lost another legal fight with TeamHealth in the latest billing salvo between the nation’s largest payer and the private-equity backed provider group, Healthcare Dive reports.
A three-judge arbitration panel in Florida ruled this week that UnitedHealthcare underpaid a TeamHealth clinician group from 2017 to 2020, and awarded $10.8 million to TeamHealth. TeamHealth also expects an “additional award of millions of dollars” in prejudgment interest and costs, according to a release.
But TeamHealth was awarded “only a fraction of what it was undeservedly seeking,” and the panel also ruled against TeamHealth’s implied contract and unjust enrichment causes of action allegations. Read more.
