SENATE PROBES HEALTH INSURERS’ DISCOUNT DEALS WITH TESTING LABS AS POSSIBLE MEDICARE FRAUD: CIGNA, AETNA AND UNITEDHEALTH GROUP

Several major health insurers including CIGNA, AETNA UNITED HEALTH GROUP and others are the subject of a Senate investigation as to whether they have discount deals with high volume testing labs which in return may have sent patients to them for treatments covered by Medicaid or Medicare. These deals may have violated the anti kickback laws and may result in major whistleblower cases such as one recently settled by Quest Diagnostics for $241 million.