Judge Refuses To Dismiss Suit Over ‘Upcoding’ Of Services To Insurer

Mealey's (October 24, 2018, 1:35 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Oct. 23 denied a motion to dismiss or transfer a lawsuit accusing a medical billing company of improperly upcoding services for neonatal intensive care to Aetna Inc. and its affiliates, finding that the insurer’s claims were timely and that its filing of a praecipe to issue a writ of summons in state court was sufficient to initiate action under the first-filed rule (Aetna Inc., et al. v. Mednax Inc., et al., No. 18-2217, E.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181147)....