“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care

…And things will be much worse if Russia’s puppet wins.


https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations #healthcare #usahealth #insurance

“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

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Another excellent compilation & summary of the COVID & other health news in the land of the free
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COVID news and more 10/28/23

Hospitalizations and Emergency Department visits for COVID are continuing to decrease this week. Emergency visits for RSV in babies age 0 to 1 year are starting to increase however. Fortunately, there are two new preventatives against RSV this year- an

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