In a May 30 petition, the health insurance giant asked the justices to overturn a decision made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In that decision, the circuit affirmed a ruling on the billing tactic, called cross-plan offsetting, in a Jan. 15 filing. The Eighth Circuit found that the practice was not allowed by UnitedHealth’s plans and potentially broke federal law.
However, UnitedHealth argued the circuit failed to give UnitedHealth appropriate deference and fell on the wrong side of multiple circuit splits, according to Bloomberg.
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