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New York Times’ The Middlemen series
Too Rare to Matter? How Insurers Fail Millions with ‘Uncommon’ Diseases.
When you’re healthy, you might see insurance as a tedious but dependable safety net. For rare disease patients, the truth is harsher: we wish inconvenience was the worst of it.
UnitedHealth Purges Rheumatology Clinic, Patients Left Scrambling
Dropping Triangle Arthritis from its Medicare Advantage network is part of a wider strategy to cut high-cost doctors and dump vulnerable patients.
H.R. 3467 Stinks
Here are the three provisions in the bill that are the most glaringly harmful to seniors, taxpayers and the free market.
Pharmacies In Desperate Need of an Antidote
Chains and independents alike are shuttering as pharmacy benefit managers tighten reimbursements.
NYC Retirees Are Victorious Against Mayor Eric Adams Medicare Advantage Push
Mayor Eric Adams abruptly ends plan to force 250,000 retired city workers into a privatized health plan, marking a watershed win for a bipartisan grassroots movement.
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[VIDEO] Welcome to the Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group
Last week the Center for Health & Democracy published the Sunlight Report on UnitedHealth Group – a first-of-its-kind look at the largest health care conglomerate in the world.
Check out our Get Educated page to read the full report.
UnitedHealth Hits Panic Button: Ex-CEO Hemsley Reinstalled Amid Tumult
As its stock plunges and federal investigators close in, the health care juggernaut bets on its old architect to salvage a deeply troubled empire.
Cutting Care From Patients Saves Only a Fraction of What Cutting Insurance Abuse Would
Lawmakers say cuts to Medicaid and CHIP will save money — but patients will pay with their lives, while Big Insurance cashes in.
Texas AG investigating insurance company accused of spying on lawmakers, journalists, other Texans
Superior HealthPlan’s CEO, whom lawmakers grilled about the company’s alleged hiring of private investigators, was reportedly fired after the inquiry was announced.
UnitedHealth Group Is Being Investigated by the Department of Justice
UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, is once again under federal scrutiny—this time for potentially fraudulent Medicare billing practices.
Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects Show Pitfalls of Medicare Advantage
The show follows once-separated high school friends Marshall, a mycologist, and Frances, the executive assistant to a pharmaceutical executive, who reconnect after Marshall begins peppering Frances’ boss with questions during a public event announcing a new drug the pharmaceutical company is launching.
Legalized Racketeering? How PBMs Skirt the Law to Rake in Billions
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have been under scrutiny lately for their actions as middlemen in the flow of prescription drugs from manufacturers to patients. But perhaps their worst actions are buried within a maze of consolidation and paperwork. Big Insurance has consolidated the entire pharmaceutical benefit, claim, and dispensing sector to squeeze as much money out of patients as possible.
Bruised by Government Report, Cigna's Pharmacy Business Sues the Federal Trade Commission
Whistleblower, former Cigna VP, and reformed insurance propagandist Wendell Potter takes you behind the scenes to provide a glimpse into the reasoning behind the lawsuit his former company filed this week against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
How We Voted in 2016 Contributed to UnitedHealth's Acquisition of Change Healthcare
Also: Patient information may be even more at risk than we've been told.
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.