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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Aetna/U.S. HealthCare, Inc./Prudential Health Plan
Current Parent Company: CVS Health
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Penalty: $166,667
Year: 2001
Date: October 16, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: The New York Attorney announced agreements with six health maintenance organizations that would empower consumers to challenge denials of coverage. The HMOs also agreed to pay a total of $1 million to the state AG's office to cover the cost of the investigation. The announcement did not specify how that cost would be divided among the six plans. Here we assume it was split equally.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New York Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New York
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Rhode Island
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-pharmacies
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