UnitedHealth reduced hospitalizations for nursing home seniors. Now it faces wrongful death claims
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Enormous fuck you to my prescription insurance Optum RX for forcing me to get my meds through their online pharmacy and then constantly cancelling my orders of my medications that have life-threatening withdrawal symptoms if I miss a dose. If I ever end up in the hospital from your BS I’m taking your asses to court
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just for context, i worked for uhg and optum rx as an intern during summer 2024 in columbia, maryland. what i thought would be a good job and helping patients was far from the truth. i wish i could go into more details but i saw first hand how this fuck-ass company was making patients feel more sick and they were fucking PROFITING off of their sickness. medications being “too expensive.” FUCK OFF. most of the employees were good, but there were so many shallow, uninformed, dishonest employees that didn’t not care. this company, does not care about you, and will screw you over 100%
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Unfortunately, there are no captions on this video about United Health Group (pre-assassination).
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
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As someone who works with health insurance daily as part of my job, going after the CEO of UHC was great, I literally came back from lunch & said to my coworkers “you’ll never believe what just happened”.
But also we can aim higher. UHC is small potatoes. You know who has their hands in everything? UHG. The parent company. UHC, Optum, Humana, EXL health, hell they even have a hand in a decent portion of Anthem plans PLUS control a large portion of the Community Care Network for the Veterans’s Administration.
You know what else they control? BILLING. FOR MEDICAL PROVIDERS. More providers than you’d ever want to think use Optum as their billing company! So not only do they likely have their hands in your health insurance, they are also the company BILLING your insurance. Hello, incorrect CPT & DX codes that get denied!
Change Healthcare? A massive medical billing agency. Services a lot of EMS providers. It’s Optum owned. They got hacked at the beginning of this year. There are medical providers who still cannot bill insurance for their services at least 8 months later because they have no access to the system. So they send a bill to the patient hoping to recoup something because they can’t generate the ‘official’ bills insurance needs. (If you want my rant about false medical bills you’ll have to ask cause that’s a different conversation.)
Guess who else had a major hack this year? United Healthcare. I didn’t mention it earlier but they’re also AARP! So the company that has a strong hold on retired veterans, retired citizens, and people who are disabled/on SSDI basically had 2 major data breaches this year. Your health insurance has all of your info; age, date of birth, SSN, address, job, pretty much everything.
Optum also used to have its hands in Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, although I believe HPHC split from them either last year or this year. It was recent.
It’s insane. Almost the entire healthcare system relies on United Healthcare Group (not UHC, but close enough). I say burn it to the ground.
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Cyberattack targets US health tech giant Change Healthcare
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A cyberattack on the networks of US healthcare IT company Change Healthcare has been revealed. The company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue” in a brief statement on Wednesday.
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I am blessed to celebrate the holidays with my amazing, dedicated colleagues at Optum who make it a delight to care for our Long Beach Community. Here are a smattering of pics of me with some of my healthcare heroes who taught me how to give it my all on the wards. Happy holidays!!! #Optum #HappyHolidays #LongBeach #healthcare #physicians
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Had a beautiful time celebrating the holidays with our Optum colleagues at our annual holiday gala. 11 years ago, then hospitalist (now CEO!) Derek Chao offered me the chance to join the team at then-Healthcare Partners, and I took it not knowing how long I’d stay, or where this road would lead. And now here I am, one of the ‘old school’ docs, a pandemic veteran and now part of the team helping develop our newer clinicians. Thanks for giving me a shot, Derek! Thank you to the beautiful @veenasison for being my lovely date and dance partner. Happy holidays! #Happyholidays #Optum #flappers #mywifewaswaymoregorgeousthanme
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Had such a great day today ☺️🙌🙌 #jwmarriott #jw #marriott #optum #öptüm #optumtownhall #town #hall #townhall (at JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort & Spa)
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Happy to be part of this leadership team! #ClinicalLead #MedicalLeadership #Optum (at El Segundo)
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Witty: UnitedHealth bullish on its growth trajectory, particularly for Optum
Witty: UnitedHealth bullish on its growth trajectory, particularly for Optum
Witty: UnitedHealth bullish on its growth trajectory, particularly for Optum
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Proud of our Optum teammates for our Rise Against Hunger philanthropy event! Now off to rounds! #optum #philanthropy
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Louisiana AG sues UnitedHealth, alleging drug overcharges in Medicaid
Louisiana AG sues UnitedHealth, alleging drug overcharges in Medicaid
Louisiana AG sues UnitedHealth, alleging drug overcharges in Medicaid
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