Elevance’s Peter Haytaian to testify in Medicare fraud case

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Peter Haytaian, a former high government at medical insurance firm Elevance Well being, should sit for a deposition within the federal authorities’s case that alleges Elevance dedicated fraud in its Medicare Benefit plans, a choose dominated late Wednesday.

The choice is a victory for the Division of Justice, which initiated the extremely watched case six years in the past and has sought to interview Haytaian since February. It additionally creates a uncommon likelihood for a high-ranking official to debate, below oath, how a Medicare plan operates.

Elevance has blocked DOJ from accessing Haytaian for a deposition, arguing he “lacks private information of the enterprise practices at subject” regardless that he oversaw Elevance’s authorities well being plans for greater than 4 years — which included the time interval when Elevance allegedly overbilled the federal government for its Medicare Benefit plans.