UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest insurer, has lost its latest legal battle against provider group TeamHealth, with a three-judge arbitration panel in Florida ruling late last week that TeamHealth was owed $10.8 million due to underpayments from UHC from 2017 to 2020, Healthcare Finance reports.
While TeamHealth said it expects additional awards, in the “millions of dollars,” for prejudgment interest and costs, UHC said the provider group was only awarded a fraction of what it was seeking and that the monetary judgment was undeserved.
According to a statement from TeamHealth, the arbitration panel “relied on convincing evidence that United paid the group 30% of the amount the judges determined to be the fair payment for the care provided – and United today continues to pay at this egregiously low rate.” Read more.
