I procrastinated calling for a bunch of phone support as long as I possibly could. Like… more than a month. Because we live in opposite world now, I guess, #Lexus was unquestionably the worst, #HomeDepot was in the middle, and #UnitedHealthcare was by far the best. I don’t understand it, either.

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It
The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money.

#Law #LawFedi #SCOTUS #grift #gift #RV #Camping #Walmart #AnthonyWelters #Loan #ethics #influence #scrutiny #PrevostMarathon #UnitedHealthcare

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html

This One Company controls America’s ENTIRE Health Care System, or why you're DENIED your health care claim.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=frr4wuvAB6U&feature=share

#BIGPharma #UnitedHealthCare #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Monopolies #MonopoliesAreNetworks

#UnitedHealthcare just sent a letter to *The Estate of* my late stepmother to remind her to come in for a physical.

SERIOUSLY. 🤦‍♂️ 🤨

#UnitedHealthcare and new #Medicare "Advantage" is killing #seniors in the U.S.? Seems like the only advantage anyone is getting from this is yet more money for the profit slavers and their sycophants, at the expense of working class tax dollars so no surprise there.

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/medicare-advantage-hearth-insurance-care-denials-seniors-disabilities/

@HaruCoryne @ProPublica #UnitedHealthcare Did dirt to my family too.

#UnitedHealthcare insurance is going to make it harder to be screened for GI Cancers. Research says there is an increase in GI cancers. GI doctor recommends getting screened at 45.

Healthcare shouldn’t be for profit or privatized when Corporations exposed us to the toxins/chemicals that are harming us.

Contact your reps to stop greedy insurances from doing this.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTREDPWoH/

#MedicareForAll #EatTheRich #Food #classwar #Millennials #GenX #Cancer #medicareforall #climate #climatechange #Strike

@KatM I am so very, very sorry! #UnitedHealthcare causes more suffering than they cure and I truly hate that you’re having to deal with this.

Over on the @ProPublica Instagram post about #insurance coverage denials, #UnitedHealthcare is trying to reach out to people complaining about their service.

It didn't go very well for the nation's largest insurer.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqZFNFurWKt/

Insured through #Cigna or #UnitedHealthcare?

ProPublica & Capitol Forum have investigated how these #health #insurance companies fight to reduce spending on patient care.

Join us Tuesday, 3/28 to learn our findings.

RSVP to this free online event here:

https://www.propublica.org/events/medically-necessary?utm_content=buffer17cf4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Medicare Advantage plans get to decide if they want to give you medication. My husband has been trying to get his #insulin covered by #UnitedHealthcare for 3 months! He needs both Novolin-R and Novolin-N. First they let him have R but not N. Then they approved N but not R. I am appealing our case but we are both ready for a breakdown over the stress of fighting them. The pre-authorization system is a killer.

Smartwatches and Wristbands Earn You Bucks:
UnitedHealthcare announced a new program that could be worth $1000 a year in your pocket. #fitness #rewards #unitedhealthcare #applewatch #fitbit #exercise #sleep
https://youtu.be/nr9kItISBKo

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A recent ProPublica investigation focused on Chris McNaughton, the #PennState student who had to sue his #insurance provider #UnitedHealthcare to get his #UlcerativeColitis treatment covered.

Now hear Chris’ story in his own words, and recordings of UHC execs discussing their decision to deny coverage.

After his diagnosis, Chris unsuccessfully tried a wide variety of treatments until his specialist at the Mayo Clinic landed upon a high-dose combination of drugs that finally worked:

#UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the #Insurer’s Inner Workings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis
#healthcare #insurance #health

Yup -- it's true. This client has NO mental health coverage. My billing people say this is increasingly common.

In fact -- it gets worse. As my biller says:

"The only information they would provide is that she has no mental health benefits at all and that if she received treatment prior to the effective date of this coverage it would not be covered for 12 months due to being a pre-existing condition."

The plan is US Health Group (A Unitedhealthcare Company) underwritten by Freedom Life Insurance Company of America. They are formerly known as "UMR" and still appear this way in billing systems and their snail mail address.

Apparently a search of Maryland's ACA (Affordable Care Act) Health Connection website for useful insurance coverage prompts a flurry of texts and calls from random health insurance brokers looking to sell desperate people trash plans not on the state exchange. In this case some high speed sales script reading was involved and the client did not fully understand what was being purchased. This is not a stupid client.

There are so many problems here:

1) The original outrage of no mental health coverage.
2) The possibility that NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITION MIGHT BE COVERED. (I have no reason to assume that statement only applies to mental health pre-existing conditions. I don't know.).
3) That client contact data from Maryland Health Connection government website is available to brokers of possibly shady plans.
4) That United Health is actively supporting and has some ownership in a plan that certainly at least smells like a SCAM, although I'm sure it sold as extreme cut-rate no-frills insurance.

This needs to stop.

#psychology #insurance #mentalhealth #psychiatry #covid #socialwork
#healthadvocacy #aca #apa @psychology @socialwork
@psychotherapists @psychiatry #psychotherapy
#covidisnotover #telehealth
@SuprmomcatCathy @Neurogirl1976 @siderea @notes @dramypsyd
#marylandhealthconnection #marylandaca
#uhc #unitedhealthcare #ushealthgroup #UMR #freedomlifeinsurance

'We’re still gonna say no': Inside #UnitedHealthcare’s effort to deny coverage to chronically ill patient https://www.rawstory.com/were-still-gonna-say-no-inside-unitedhealthcares-effort-to-deny-coverage-to-chronically-ill-patient

“We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside #UnitedHealthcare Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient. This is #America y'all! #HealthCare #universalhealthcare https://flip.it/v0PodJ

#Insurance companies and money: It's money über alles.

A long read, but a good one.

"'We’re Still Gonna Say No': Inside #UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient"

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social

#ClassAction against #UnitedHealthcare? anyone? anyone? group #legal action? anyone?

i know my #family isn’t the only one whose existence was (and continues to be) upended and repeat-traumatized by the wanton hubris of a #medical #insurance provider whose main goal is increased profits, leaning on “delay, deny, wait ‘til they die” #policy and procedure.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

Discovered my health insurer is trending in the course of my daily hashtag review.

Annnnd... woof. If you ever needed another reason to avoid catching COVID, here's one: the healthcare system is no friend to the chronically ill. (I'd specify US, but I've yet to find a country where people with disabilities and chronic illness aren't treated poorly.)

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

#UnitedHealthcare #ChronicIllness #DisabilityJustice #Healthcare