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Emergency room staffing company TeamHealth filed suit in federal court on July 13 alleging that UnitedHealthcare Inc. wrongly denied and underpaid for services its ER physicians provided to patients in Nevada, reports Healthcare Dive. Fremont Emergency Services, a TeamHealth subsidiary, alleges that UnitedHealthcare did not pay the Fremont physicians after treating an infant with a traumatic brain injury and a child with a ruptured appendix. UnitedHealthcare filed its own suit against TeamHealth last year in federal court, alleging that the physician group routinely upcodes, or submits claims with higher codes than the care that was provided, the report says.