AI6YR Ben6d ago

The Guardian: Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

"...The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive...."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

#insurance #greed

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

The Guardian
Show threadPaul_IPv66d ago

@ai6yr

more and more, they are getting caught showing that they are the health *insurance* industry, not a health *care* industry, and that shareholders, not patients, are who they are concerned about.

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@ai6yr

it's pretty obvious to me that universal health care for all is not communism or socialism or government over-reach. it's the only path to safe, affordable actual health care for everyone in this country. private health care is the death panel the GOP love to rail on about.

May 22 at 10:38pmWeb