UHC CEO Gunned Down in Midtown Manhattan
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Anonymous
| The gave taken somebody into custody (in PA)! |
Anonymous
They don’t have a clue, but their narrative is certainly worthy massive attention. |
Anonymous
If you poke around on the site, look at the article "UHC tells employees to shut up". |
Anonymous
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:17cca45b-264a-4ea1-be60-ed89a2df65b5 How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm “Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations What Will UnitedHealth’s New Trove of Claims Data Mean for Consumers? https://www.propublica.org/article/united-healthcare-change-acquisition-claims-records |
Anonymous
Post the link I just checked Twitter and CNN and didn’t see anything about this. |
Anonymous
Source? |
Anonymous
Quoting myself here’s the link. Not sure why my first search was off. https://x.com/abcpolitics/status/1866157157843898679?s=46&t=R3AX3c486LFdeZpFtkN_eA |
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Here ya go. Someone on r/medicine asked colleagues to provide examples of egregious denials. 285 replies so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/1h8f5yo/assassinated_by_insurance/ Random selection: -I had a patient die from breast cancer because we couldn’t get a mammogram approved because she was too young and didn’t have the risk factors. Metastasized and she was dead by the time oncology was approved. -I had a patient admitted to subacute rehab after a fall who BlueCross had dragged their feet on approving authorization for rehab, so was waiting in a nursing home without any therapy. He sat in rehab and then was approved for something like 1-2 weeks total. He was then cut, while still needing essentially 1-2 people to walk with him due to the deconditioning (in part waiting on authorization), and did not have private funds or medicaid to pay for a long term stay, so the plan was for him to move in with his daughter to essentially provide all the assistance for him. As he is leaving the facility, before getting into the car, he falls basically three steps outside the door, and has significant polytrauma up to and including a hemopneumothorax and cardiac tamponade from multiple rib fractures. He spends the next two-four weeks in the hospital, with a pericardial window, etc and complications from the polytrauma. -We had a patient with horrific low back pain and a lumbar radiculopathy with progressing weakness. We were able to get an authorization for surgery to decompress the L5 nerve root for the worsening foot drop, with the authorization specifying the date range for our planned surgery. Weakness started progressing faster, so we bumped the surgery up a few days to squeeze him in as soon as possible. After the successful surgery was completed the whole surgery was denied by insurance because we did it 2 days before the specified authorization range .-Here is the most egregious case I've ever heard: Kathleen Valentini Healthy 47 y/o woman develop hip pain out of the blue Doctor orders MRI Health insurance administrator says "no MRI, go do physical therapy for a few weeks" She had already done PT, which her Doctor had told her insurance company when they ordered the MRI. They appeal and after 41 days the insurance company authorizes it Turns out she has a fast-growing bone cancer Woman goes to MSK to have it treated. Doctors say they would've been able to try chemo had it been diagnosed a few weeks earlier. Instead, they must do radical surgery (amputate leg). They do the surgery. Margins are positive. She dies shortly after. Here are some other articles that cover the story: https://www.wfae.org/health/2023-05-09/her-health-insurer-delayed-her-mri-as-the-cancer-spread https://casetext.com/case/valentini-v-grp-health-5 -Patient in my continuity clinic has clear superficial venous thrombosis with risk factors of progression to DVT. Firstline anticoagulant: rivaroxiban. Insurance not willing to budge for it, had to work with a coupon or the patient goes on warfarin. -Rare blood cancer. Not many treatments but a recent one had promising results. FDA approved. NCCN recommended. Insurance denied. Their rebuttal “try the shitty older drug that doesn’t work first. You can’t say one is better without a head to head comparison.” Same day I did the peer to peer (with a semi retired boomer gastroenterologist btw), pt got admitted with renal failure and died 5 days after that. (r/medicine frequently says the peer-to-peer docs on the insurance side are certified in a specialty that has nothing to do with the condition needing the coverage, having practiced in years, or whose licenses even turn out to be inactive) |
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Dp. https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/person-of-interest-nabbed-in-fatal-shooting-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-outside-nyc-hotel/ |
Anonymous
| They’re saying he’s been found with the weapon in his pocket. |
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| Altoona, PA |
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A man is being held for questioning in connection with the killing of a health insurance executive last week, according to three law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation.
The man was identified based on a tip from someone who spotted him in a McDonald’s restaurant, one of the officials said, and is being held in Altoona, Pa. One of the law enforcement officials said that the man had a gun, a silencer and false identification cards similar to those they believe the killer used in New York. New York police investigators were on their way to Altoona, about 280 miles from the city, according to one of the other law enforcement officials. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/uhc-ceo-murder-suspect#uhc-ceo-murder-suspect |
Anonymous
Impossible! All the smartest kids in the class here at DCUM says this was absolutely a professional hit man from the Middle East. DCUM: wrong about everything, again. |
Anonymous
Yep, the one's who bark the loudest on these threads are almost always the most wrong. |
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