AMA pleased to have agreed to Cigna Ingenix Drop Database

 

Friday, Mar 06,2009, 11:03:10 AM   Click:

Calls upon all insurers to deny the database used to mislead patients and doctors

Statement attributable to:
Nancy Nielsen, M.D.
AMA President

"The American Medical Association commend CIGNA Corporation today for committing to the insurer of the work conducted by the school New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. In the wake of these agreements, the AMA urges all insurers to refuse fatally defective the Ingenix database.

The Ingenix database has corrupted the system of payment outside the network of medical costs, which patients and doctors to be cheated by health insurers. A lack of transparency, accuracy and integrity in the payment system has allowed insurers to highlight the benefits of their promise for patients.

"Health insurers who really aware of the importance of restoring damaged their relations with patients and physicians must be committed to the solution proposed by the New York Attorney General Cuomo immediately.

"The Attorney General's proposal to delete the database seriously flawed Ingenix control of health insurance and create a new database operated by a non-profit. A database independent and transparent will keep private interests to corrupt the data used to set reimbursement rates for out-of-network care.

"While the new body in a database is an important step in the reform of health insurance, severe damage resulting from CIGNA prior defects, the Ingenix database must still be resolved. WADA intends continue to play its role in a pending class-action to obtain compensation for physicians who have been seriously injured by the insurer CIGNA's long-term use of the imperfect Ingenix database.

"All insurers should act immediately to stop the malpractice of the database and rigged Ingenix restoration works just compensation for patients and doctors."

Contact:
Robert J. Mills
AMA Media Relations
(312) 464-5970