Medicare patient wrongly sent to collections in dispute between two UnitedHealth Group entities
The Minnesota-based insurer said he owed $275. The surgery center in St. Cloud wanted another $3,300. UnitedHealth owns both and is now apologizing.
The Minnesota-based insurer said he owed $275. The surgery center in St. Cloud wanted another $3,300. UnitedHealth owns both and is now apologizing.
As an independent pharmacist, I have been watching companies like UnitedHealth Group consolidate their power over our health care system for the past 20 years. I can say unequivocally, from personal experience, that this consolidation is bad and only getting worse. It should come as no surprise to anyone that
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance conglomerate by far, continues to show how rewarding it is for shareholders when corporate lawyers find loopholes in well-intentioned legislation – and game the Medicare Advantage program in ways most lawmakers and regulators didn’t anticipate and certainly didn’t intend – to boost profits. UnitedHealth
Eleven protesters were arrested by Minnetonka police for blocking the street, according to the People’s Action Institute, which helped organize the protest as part of its Care Over Cost campaign. The campaign says it aims to bring attention to the health insurance company’s “systemic practice of refusing to approve care
Protest organizers say 11 people were arrested Monday outside UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnetonka during an event spotlighting what critics say is a pattern of improper coverage denials by the nation’s largest health insurer. Critics in recent years have focused on prior authorization rules that patients and health care providers say have wrongly
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In June, a delegation of medical professionals, patients, community, and labor leaders met with the chief medical officers of UnitedHealth Group and UnitedHealthcare, and the CEO of OptumRx, to discuss the systemic issue of care delays and denials by UnitedHealthcare and demand change. UnitedHealth Group, which owns UnitedHealthcare and OptumRx,
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Pharmacy benefit managers are driving up drug costs for millions of people, employers and the government. The three largest pharmacy benefit managers, or P.B.M.s, act as middlemen overseeing prescriptions for more than 200 million Americans. They are owned by huge health care conglomerates — CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group
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On February 21, the same day that a ransomware attack began to wreak havoc throughout UnitedHealth Group and the U.S. health care system, five of UnitedHealth’s C-suite executives, including CEO Andrew Witty and the company’s chief legal officer, sold $17.7 million worth of their stock in the company. Witty alone accounted for
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I hope Minnesotans read about the testimony of UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. It’s an eye-opener about the corporate practices of our Eden Prairie health insurance/big data/whatever behemoth. Witty was on the receiving end of scathing comments from a bipartisan group of senators —
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In health care, no one is bigger than UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest private health insurer and largest employer of physicians. The nearly $400 billion umbrella company also helps run hospitals, has rapidly acquired outpatient surgery centers, is expanding into home health services — and fell victim to a cyberattack
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