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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Mar. 27, 2009

Suit: Database Fixes Prices Against Doctors

After raging for years in courts elsewhere in the country, the battle over a controversial database used by health plans to calculate pay for non-contracted physicians has finally reached California.

By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - After raging for years in courts elsewhere in the country, the battle over a controversial database used by health plans to calculate pay for non-contracted physicians has finally reached California.

The database, called Ingenix, has come under fire by doctors' groups who say it is used by health plans to underpay them, and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has accused the system of bein...

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