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UnitedHealth billing flaws persisted as company grew
Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 10, 2007
Since 2000, UnitedHealth has been sanctioned in nine states for paying claims slowly, shortchanging doctors, hospitals or patients or poorly handling their complaints and appeals. The payment problems related to an array of medical care, from ER visits to specialist referrals to oral surgery on children.
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