Look, we can empathize with #BrianThompson’s family who lost a husband/father/son/brother to #GunViolence, but still acknowledge that he was a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation that indirectly or directly put additional healthcare costs (sometimes allegedly deadly according to some of the lawsuits) on Americans daily, and at a growing rate.
#AndrewWitty (UHG CEO, which I misspoke in the video) addressed his company #UnitedHealthGroup in a leaked video where he continues to paint United and other insurance companies as protection against “unnecessary care.”
Doctors determine necessary care, and there are plenty of checks and balances in the hospital to ensure that it is not fraudulent (e.g. surgery in-and-out times preventing anesthesiologists from padding times, etc.). The burden should be on insurance companies to thoroughly review cases and prove lack of necessity in order to deny coverage, not on doctors and providers to get their language just right to avoid AI algorithm denials or to spend hours on the phone just to confirm that care was very obviously appropriate to challenge an auto-denial.
If you are a customer of #UnitedHealthcare, unfortunately insurance options are limited and and some only marginally better.
If you work for United - hey, everyone’s gotta make a living, but do not kid yourself with Witty’s BS here.
Special thanks to Ken Klippenstein for great reporting that I quoted in the video.
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