I had to laugh as somewhere else on the web I read a title of “United embraces Obamacare”, well heck they practically run it so at this point embrace is a funny description to me. We all know that the company lives off constant business intelligence algorith…
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So we are all watching to see how insurance merger mania goes and here’s the next after Centene bought Health Net a couple days ago. In the Medicare Advantage market Aetna is the distant third behind United and Humana so with purchasing the #2 Medicare Advan…
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The patients affected that will have to change doctors are the members who bought their coverage from AARP. This doesn’t appear to be as large as the numbers of doctors cut in other states, but still if it’s you, it has an impact. This appears to give a litt…
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Alere is a consumer and professional medical diagnostic products maker and Optum will buy Alere Health and all of it’s subsidiaries to add to the army of subsidiaries Optum/United already owns. United Healthcare has been hiding in plain sight for years scoop…
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Ok so we have other lawsuits already in place so we add one more here. United is saying they were tricked now into paying high claims costs, but what about their fraud prevention algorithms they sell to help hospitals and providers all across the US? Don’t …
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According the filing below, this change took place effective January 1st of this year so as I read this all patient records, documentation, etc. would need some type of update to reflect the new names, policies and coverage. As we all follow data trails toda…
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This problem is expanding into Kentucky now. I have heard it for years in California with different doctors groups over and over complaining that their net reimbursement from United Healthcare is less than Medicare. For those why buy insurance plans from ex…
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When you read through one person gets the health insurance side and the other person gets the other side, Optum. Optum as you know does all kinds of things from wellness, to cheap hearing aids, owns a custodial bank, sells software, integrates EMRs and all…
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