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Cigna violated the law by denying claims for imaging and other services in bulk, lawsuit alleges

Two Cigna members sued the insurer in California federal court Monday, seeking an injunction

Cigna Healthcare is facing a federal class action lawsuit which alleges the company used algorithms to “deny payments in batches of hundreds or thousands at a time,” as part of an almost completely automated claims decision process.

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The lawsuit claims the Cigna PXDX algorithm enables automatic denials for treatments that do not match preset criteria.

A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law.