Judge Strikes Insurers’ Request For Damages Stemming From Hospitals’ Bills

Mealey's (March 16, 2021, 9:41 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on March 12 granted a motion to strike a request from Aetna Inc. and its affiliates for $102.7 million in damages stemming from the submission by medical billing companies for allegedly inflated claims for services provided by a physicians group for services provided at hospitals, finding that the insurers failed to disclose during fact discovery that such damages were being sought....