What You Need To Know

• The plaintiffs accused the two companies of using so-called “dummy codes” to mask administrative expenses in patients’ medical charges, which increased their out-of-pocket costs.
• This class-action lawsuit that has been litigated for almost a decade.
• The lawsuit was filed in 2015 by Sandra Peters, an Aetna retiree, after she saw significant increases in her out-of-pocket costs for chiropractic care and physical therapy.