By Diana Novak Jones

CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday rejected Elevance Health’s challenge of the U.S. government’s calculation for the health insurer’s star ratings for some of its government-backed Medicare plans after the company said improper rounding cost it at least $375 million.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, sided with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the company sued to fight the star rating assigned to one of its contracts, arguing the agency’s calculations for the ratings were flawed. Pittman said Elevance had not pointed out any major problems with the calculations and that the process is too complicated for the court to evaluate it beyond that.

Elevance, the parent of companies including Anthem Blue Cross a

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