Thursday, April 17, 2008

Cigna Will Stop Paying for Hospital Blunders

Insurance giant Cigna said today it’s clamping down on payments for surgical procedures on the “wrong side, wrong site, wrong body part or wrong person.”
The health insurer (when allowed under its hospital contracts, of course) is joining a growing roster of payers who are stopping their reimbursements of hospitals for what they call “never events” [...]

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