The insurers being sued strongly deny any plot to avoid paying. Dr. Don Young represents the insurance industry and says with five billion claims a year, there are bound to be some honest mistakes, especially with most doctors still filing on paper instead of electronically. We've been working very hard over the last one to two years to deal with that problem. Harper says United forced him to resign after he blew the whistle. United calls him a disgruntled ex-employee who's trying to get a better severance package.
Harper is now in arbitration with the company.
But he says that's small change compared to the millions insurance companies can make by cheating doctors and patients. All Rights Reserved. On occasion, management instructed claims examiners to actually discard claims, legitimate claims, throw them away.