{"id":673498,"date":"2026-05-30T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:45:13","slug":"massachusetts-sues-unitedhealth-unit-for-allegedly-defrauding-medicaid-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673498\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts sues UnitedHealth unit for allegedly defrauding Medicaid program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Massachusetts sued a UnitedHealth insurance unit on Friday, \u200caccusing it of defrauding the \u200cstate&#8217;s Medicaid program out of more than $100 \u200bmillion by making older patients appear more seriously ill than they actually were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andrea Joy Campbell, the Massachusetts \u200cattorney general, \u2060said UnitedHealthcare Insurance, which operates as UnitedHealthcare Community Plans of \u2060Massachusetts, falsely manipulated the health status of MassHealth members enrolled in \u200bits Senior \u200bCare Options \u200bplan to secure \u200chigher payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UnitedHealth, in a statement, called the complaint &#8220;meritless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Campbell accused UnitedHealth of submitting inaccurate diagnoses for patients 65 and older between 2015 and 2025, \u200cto receive higher \u200bpayments from MassHealth and \u200badvance \u200bthe company&#8217;s &#8220;growth-at-all-costs strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit accuses \u200cUnitedHealth of submitting false \u200bclaims \u200band unjust enrichment. It seeks to recoup money that MassHealth improperly \u200bpaid, and \u200cseeks triple damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Jonathan \u200bStempel in New York: Editing \u200bby Chiara Rodriquez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Massachusetts sued a UnitedHealth insurance unit on Friday, \u200caccusing it of defrauding the \u200cstate&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[170229,97,252,253,293757,2001,245703,58971],"class_list":["post-673498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-andrea-joy-campbell","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance-unit","tag-massachusetts","tag-masshealth","tag-unitedhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}