The Centene offenders tried to cheat those hardworking emergency room doctors. Managing commercial health programs claims like Medicare wages, trying to hide which company owed the money, because they used to pay late. Their careless approach via these essential workers was offensive,” said the lead attorney and a name partner with Houston-based AZA or Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C.
To stop systematic underpayment of ER doctors’ groups by insurance companies that seek to keep the money for their own coffers this lawsuit is one of many Team Health has filed against various insurers across the country
The legal team was appointed only six days before this Arkansas trial. A similar Houston matter is programmed to be tried soon by Mr. Zavitsanos and his team. Team Health is trying to level the active area for those key doctors that support multiple communities but whose practice groups are being badly underpaid by several highly profitable insurance companies.
Centene is using its tactics, the jury found that since 2014 Centene and paid the emergency clinicians’ groups only 20% of the amount they were owed for their services. The jury also heard how Centene tried to obfuscate their ownership of the companies and the entities responsible for paying the do them.
According to Team, health Communities depend on their ER doctors, and insurance companies cheating them out of their livelihood is not only fraudulent, but it’s also dangerous.
Team Health is a physician-led, patient-focused company founded by doctors, for doctors. Team Health is represented in this lawsuit by Mr. Kennedy and AZA’s name partner Mr. Zavitsanos, AZA.
Their co-counsel are Judy Simmons Henry, Baxter D. Drennon, and Michael A. Thompson of Wright Lindsey Jennings in Little Rock.
Based on the research; The case is SoutheasternEmergency Physicians, LLC v.
Arkansas Health & Wellness Health Plan, Inc.; Celtic Insurance Company d/b/a Arkansas Health & Wellness Insurance Company; Novasys Health, Inc., and Centene Corporation, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Case No. 4:17-cv-492-KGB.
AZA, or Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C., is a Houston-based law firm that is home to true courtroom lawyers with a terrible track record in complex commercial litigation, including energy, healthcare, intellectual property, and business dispute cases. AZA is recognized by Chambers USA 2020 among the best in Texas commercial law; by U.S. News-Best Lawyers but it’s almost Law Firms as one of the country’s best commercial litigation firms for eight years running; was named 2019 Litigation Department of the Year by Texas Lawyer, and was previously dubbed by Law360 a Texas Powerhouse law firm. National corporate counsel named AZA one of the country’s best in client service among law firms serving the Fortune 500 and 1000.
In addition, dated Aug 2019 $9.4 million was awarded to a six-person on behalf of Southeastern Emergency Physicians, LLC, an affiliate of TeamHealth Inc., finding that Centene Corporation and Ambetter, Novasys, and Celtic, its commercial insurance subsidiaries systematically tried to strip the 120 emergency clinicians in the physician’s group of most of their pay.
In one of the first in-person jury trials in Arkansas
Since the COVID-19 virus hit, the jury in U.S. District Judge Brian S.
The court also determined that the defendant’s gross was underpaid and breached their contract with the medical professionals. Aside from the $9.4 million judges added $1.24 million in attorneys’ fees and costs. It is in 2020
Top 100 Verdicts as calculated by Verdict Search. It is also the 2020 Top 10 Verdict nationally for the year so far.
One of the complaints of Ambetter of Arkansa stated he owed a refund of $3,712.27 since May 2018. he has been trying to get a reprinted check with a corrected date. He received a check refund for $3,712.27 on May 6, 2018, with a date printed on it of December 28, 2016. And his bank would not cash it. He also has documentation of the date check was received in the mail. He has called 4 times and emailed twice trying to get a reprinted check with a good date on it for the bank to accept. Each time he calls he has waited more than the appropriate 14 business days for a new check in the mail and no solution granted from the health insurance provider.
