Two newly published investigative reports, by the intrepid reporters at STAT News and The American Prospect, pull the curtains back a little more on the astonishing number of recent acquisitions UnitedHealth has made as it moves deeper and deeper into health care delivery, enabling it to grab ever-increasing chunks of our premium and tax dollars to reward its shareholders.
It’s diabolical and despicable that United would profit further from its own negligence in the Change healthcare fiasco. Where is the regulation here? Shameful for all involved but doubtful that anything will materially change.
Wouldn’t referring to your own facility and your own doctors be a stark violation? At least in NY, it sounds like it would although I’m no lawyer. These guys are truly evil empire.
They get around this by offering other options but if consumers use their facilities their copays will be lower. They then offer the "other providers" much lower reimbursements than their on facilities. What ever happened to the antitrust laws that are supposed to protect competition?
There seems to be so much wrong with what is going on. Maybe RICO violations? There is so much regulatory capture around insurance companies that all seems to be lost.
Absolutely disgusting!!! UHC is awful. They even own a major care coordination/planning platform that helps determine a hospital patient’s level of care (inpatient vs. observation). Guess which way it skews…
So they reportedly were held up by a ransomware attack where they paid $22 million by bitcoin now it makes me wonder because they aren’t paying anyone and recently they reported a drop in revenue 🙀
It’s diabolical and despicable that United would profit further from its own negligence in the Change healthcare fiasco. Where is the regulation here? Shameful for all involved but doubtful that anything will materially change.
Wouldn’t referring to your own facility and your own doctors be a stark violation? At least in NY, it sounds like it would although I’m no lawyer. These guys are truly evil empire.
They get around this by offering other options but if consumers use their facilities their copays will be lower. They then offer the "other providers" much lower reimbursements than their on facilities. What ever happened to the antitrust laws that are supposed to protect competition?
There seems to be so much wrong with what is going on. Maybe RICO violations? There is so much regulatory capture around insurance companies that all seems to be lost.
Absolutely disgusting!!! UHC is awful. They even own a major care coordination/planning platform that helps determine a hospital patient’s level of care (inpatient vs. observation). Guess which way it skews…
So they reportedly were held up by a ransomware attack where they paid $22 million by bitcoin now it makes me wonder because they aren’t paying anyone and recently they reported a drop in revenue 🙀