Surgery Centers Blast United For Nixing Lap-Band Payments

By Erica Teichert · April 22, 2014, 1:10 PM EDT

Ten surgery centers blasted UnitedHealth Group Inc. for systematically refusing to pay for morbidly obese patients' lap-band surgeries even after approving the treatments under their employer-provided health care plans, according to...

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Case Title

Almont Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC et al v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc. et al

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California Central

Nature of Suit

Labor: E.R.I.S.A.

Date Filed

April 21, 2014

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