Walter Cwietniewicz d/b/a Ellis Pharmacy, et al. v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare

Summary of Case and Settlement: On May 25, 2006, Judge Stephen E. Levin of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Civil Trial Division, granted final approval to a settlement of a class action brought for the benefit of Pennsylvania pharmacies that participated in U.S. Healthcare’s capitation program and had money withheld from capitation payments during the second half of 1996 and the first half of 1997. The lawsuit, called Walter Cwietniewicz d/b/a Ellis Pharmacy, et al. v. Aetna U.S. Healthcare, June Term, 1998, No. 423, alleged that participating pharmacies should have received certain semi-annual payments for these two six-month periods in order to be properly compensated for dispensing prescriptions to plan members. At the final approval hearing, Judge Levin noted that “this particular case was as hard-fought as any that I have participated in” and with respect to the Class' reaction to the settlement achieved as a result of our firm's work: “. . . a good job, and the reason there should be no objection, they should be very very happy with what you have done.”

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