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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It’s no secret that UnitedHealth is a colossus: It’s the country’s largest health insurer and the fourth-largest company of any type by revenue, just behind Apple. And thanks to a series of stealthy deals, almost 1 in 10 U.S. doctors — some 90,000 clinicians — now either work for UnitedHealth or are
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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An ongoing Federal Trade Commission study finds pharmacy benefit managers may have inflated drug costs while squeezing independent pharmacies, enriching some of the largest companies in the country at the expense of patients. The interim FTC report released Tuesday details the market influence of companies known as PBMs, which are
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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