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title: Perhaps I Spoke Too Soon (More UHC/Ingenix and Oxford/Alerts)
description: Perhaps I Spoke Too Soon (More UHC/Ingenix and Oxford/Alerts)
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# Perhaps I Spoke Too Soon (More UHC/Ingenix and Oxford/Alerts)

May 5, 2008

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Just as Dr. Stoller hit PedTalk with the info, I was reading [the teaser](http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/unitedhealth-s-ingenix-faces-mounting-legal-troubles/2008-05-05) over on [FierceHealthcare](http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/):

> Now, a consumer is raising the stakes a bit by attempting to get class action status for a suit against Ingenix itself.

I've [written about my experience](http://www.pedsource.com/chipsblog/andrew-cuomo-unitedhealthcare-duh) with the Ingenix "data" and their relationship with UHC, though I did conclude that this issue would go nowhere. Now that a consumer has gotten in on the deal, perhaps I'm wrong. I can only hope.

In the good news department, get this: Oxford just announced that they are changing the way their policy updates are communicated on-line. Instead of just listing the policies, they are providing a summary for each (like Aetna). This is *much* more human-friendly and will go a long way to improving their scores in the [Verden Report](http://theverdengroup.com/Reports/ManagedCareReport0408.pdf). Given the proximity of this action to the release of the data which shows them scoring so poorly, I can only wonder what the coincidence level is. I'd like to think it was the [Verden Group](http://www.theverdengroup.com) that pushed this into happening. Oxford would, of course, tell us that they have been working on this "for months" I am sure.

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