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Across the United States, patients and families are often confronted with insurance denials that delay or prevent critical medical care. Individuals in crisis are told their treatment is not “medically necessary,” or they discover too late that their coverage has been discontinued. While denials can come quickly, appeals can take […]

AARP is facing new scrutiny after disclosures showed it will receive $9 billion from UnitedHealthcare under a restructured deal to market AARP-branded Medicare Advantage plans. Financial statements on AARP’s website show the agreement replaces monthly royalties with a one-time payment of just over $9 billion. The deal comes as UnitedHealth Group faces

It turns out that AARP is in on the swindle in Washington to expand health care subsidies that will enrich the health insurers – like UnitedHealth. And they are getting paid handsomely for it. Buried in the notes to AARP’s most recent financial statement was this revelation: This massive sum

Republicans have found $124 billion in wasteful Medicare spending that enriches insurance companies at the expense of seniors and taxpayers. The only question is if they’ll take the savings or concede the insurance lobby’s claim that all efforts to rein in waste, fraud and abuse are “Medicare cuts.” This choice

A veteran health insurance industry watchdog says one bill could play an important role in not only ending the shutdown but also fixing the health care system. The No UPCODE Act (No Unreasonable Payments, Coding or Diagnoses for the Elderly Act) was introduced in March by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana)

As health insurers have consolidated and tightened their grip on the U.S. health care system – and in particular on physician practices – doctors increasingly have to spend their days battling red tape, fighting with insurers, and watching their reimbursements shrink while their operating expenses increase every year. Doctors who

Things were smooth sailing for [Marget’s] medical care at Johns Hopkins with her general practitioner coordinating the handful of doctors, her multiple tests and labs to ensure she’s staying healthy. But months ago, she started getting letters from her insurance company, UnitedHealthcare, saying that negotiations between Hopkins and United weren’t

The federal government will spend more than $1.3 trillion over the next decade on Medicare Advantage that won’t go toward patient care, a new report says. The Proactive Strategies Group analysis outlines how Congress could target wasteful spending as part of a broader health care deal. It says reforms would

 AARP-sponsored Medicare Advantage plans are among the lowest-rated options in many of the nation’s largest senior markets, despite the organization receiving over $1 billion annually to endorse them. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finds that AARP’s co-branded plans with UnitedHealthcare crack the top 10 for quality in two of the 10 U.S. counties

Medicare is supposed to fund health-care services for elderly and disabled Americans. But poorly structured payments for Medicare Advantage—a program that pays private insurers to manage seniors’ health coverage—have led to taxpayer dollars increasingly being used for non-medical perks like golf equipment, ski passes, and pet supplies. Medicare Advantage was