By AZ Mirror
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced a lawsuit Monday against MultiPlan, which last year renamed itself Claritev, alleging the company conspired with insurers for years to under pay doctors and hospitals, oftentimes leaving patients footing the bill for out-of-network care.
“This wasn’t an accident,” Mayes told reporters Monday. “It was a coordinated deliberate scheme.”
Mayes’ office is accusing Multiplan, along with insurers Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Elevance, Molina, Centene and Health Care Service Corporation, of working together to determine lower rates for out-of-network care.
The sprawling complaint alleges that MultiPlan helped these companies set the prices for out-of-network services by using a proprietary algorithm that fixed prices for each service regardless of the geographic area or other factors.
