United Healthcare Subsidiary Fined $46K for Improper Claim Denials

Oregon state regulators fined a subsidiary of United Healthcare Group $46,000 for improperly denying nearly 5,000 health-insurance claims, the state Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Tuesday.The department said in a press release that as a result of its investigation, PacifiCare Life Assurance reviewed more than 10,000 claims that it had denied during a 21-month period starting in September 2005 and determined that it should have paid 4,928 of the denied claims. In its investigation, the department’s Insurance Division discovered that PacifiCare Life Assurance was de...