UnitedHealthcare Must Face Debt Collector’s Florida Lawsuit

UnitedHealthcare Services Inc. must face the bulk of a debt collector’s lawsuit saying it significantly underpaid claims for 12 surgeries despite initially promising that the bills would be paid at a higher rate.

Healthcare Ally Management of California can sue the insurer in Florida without being registered as a debt collector in the state, Judge Roy K. Altman said in an order docketed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The state’s registration requirements are aimed at consumer debt collection, not a purported debt owed by an insurance company to a medical provider, Altman said. ...