Vets issue urgent warning to dog owners as one food is 'potentially toxic'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/vets-issue-urgent-warning-dog-37241355

Hey quick USian question. Has anyone got #BBL paid for by #Regence / #BlueShield / #BlueCross insurance (anywhere in the states, but WA would be most useful), and if you have do you mind sharing which provider it was with?

(DM's fine)

Thank you! (Please go ahead and share for more reach).

Inside Diane Morgan’s life from Philomena Cunk to how Peter Kay changed her life

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/diane-morgan-life-partner-cunk-36925768

Because #BlueCross has dropped #MountSinai from its network, I tried to have some lab work done at #QuestDiagnostics. The attempt to make an appointment was so obtuse and impossible, I decided to just pay the out-of-network rate to have it done by competent people at Mount Sinai's lab. Something about spending 20 minutes fighting to talk to a human being, only to be told that Quest's office in Melville, which is on their web site, doesn't exist, didn't build my confidence.

Shelter worker explains what pet owners don't understand about microchips

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shelter-worker-explains-what-pet-36479016

Everyone says same thing as owner asks what to do when it's too cold for walks

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/everyone-says-same-thing-owner-36411317

American health insurance chatbot does not know what a "primary care physician" is. 🙄 #BCBSM #BlueCross #BlueCrossBlueShield #Michigan #HealthCare #PublicHealth #Enshittification

Update 1: Now Premera Blue Cross has added a notice to its website. They, too, did not notify HHS (although they may have notified HHS in October and HHS is just behind in updating its breach tool).

#databreach #HIPAA #HHS #BlueCross

Overcoming the weaponized incompetence of Blue Cross by external review https://www.thelundreport.org/content/just-let-me-die-0 #insurance #healthinsurance #BlueCross
'Just let me die' | The Lund Report

After Highmark BCBS repeatedly denied their claims, one psychiatrist was their last hope