The class-action lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Sacramento, says Cigna Corp. and Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. rejected more than 300,000 payment claims in just two months last year.

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    2 years ago

    i cannot comprehend how we let for-profit health insurance be a thing… these people literally only profit at the expense of human health. there is no further reduction.

    profit from human suffering, and it employs millions of people. and the icing is, they make it seem like a ‘benefit’.

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    Whats crazy is the providers show no incentive to try and get it through. The insurnace pays so little vs the billed amount that as long as they can get you to pay more than a tenth of the amount they get more.

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    2 years ago

    My wife and I may be part of this. They denied her 2 week hospital stay for preeclampsia and subsequent delivery as “unnecessary” and we foot the bill for the $17k stay