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Mike Stankiewicz: UnitedHealth, AARP sued for diverting $400M a year to illegal rebates

The country’s largest Medigap insurer and an interest group for the elderly have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of illegally diverting hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A class action lawsuit (PDF) was filed on Wednesday on behalf of “a nationwide class of Medicare-eligible individuals” who claim the insurer and AARP are diverting part of their Medigap payments to fund an illegal “rebating scheme.”