Humana to support moves to curb Medicare billing practices, WSJ says

Humana (HUM) has told congressional staffers it will support moves that would curtail billing practices worth billions in extra payments, Anna Wilde Mathews and Christopher Weaver of The Wall Street Journal reports. Humana told staffers it is willing to back new limits on payments insurers can gain from diagnoses recorded by nurse practitioners, according to a one-page policy overview shared with the congressional staffers. Currently, insurers are paid more for covering sick patients, providing an incentive to record more diagnoses.