Health Net punished for lying about contract cancellation bonuses

Most companies that are tied to any type of production policies usually have something like this to pay bonuses and incentives..I worked for a few that are not in the insurance business that did the same...but the incentives were tied to product sales and methodologies that saved time and money...not human lives...BD

State health regulators fined Health Net Inc. $1 million Thursday for lying to investigators about paying employees bonuses based on the number of contracts they canceled after those policyholders got sick. The penalty was the first levied on a health insurer for withholding information about incentives given to its employees. Health Net, along with other major health insurers, is being investigated for combing through applications of members after they have filed claims to find mistakes or omissions that would justify revoking policies. Insurers say they resort to rescinding policies only when members lie about their health histories, but consumers say the questionnaires often are vague and misleading.