The Justice Department’s criminal healthcare-fraud unit is investigating UnitedHealth’s (UNH) Medicare billing practices, including looking into how the company deploys doctors and nurses to gather diagnoses that increase its payments, Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews of The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter said. The former employees said the investigators asked about the Company’s efforts to encourage documentation of certain lucrative diagnoses.
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