Excerpt: New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo selected Syracuse University to lead a research effort that will create a new national health care claims database. The new entity will create an alternative to the one owned by Ingenix, which was the subject of an investigation and fines by his office. Cuomo has said that the flawed Ingenix database was improperly used by health insurers across the country to pay low out-of-network medical claims. Cuomo said he would use the fines collected -- about $100 million -- to create an alternate database.