Forbes December 8, 2024
Attacks on UnitedHealthcare business practices in the wake of the assassination of chief executive officer Brian Thompson have swept health insurance companies up in a national imbroglio over how they deny medical care and slow walk approvals of treatments.
To be sure, health insurance companies indeed do “delay, deny and defend” when it comes to patients and doctors submitting claims for everything from surgeries and procedures to drugs and hospitalizations.
But health insurers are typically doing the bidding of the employer who hires them or the government that pays them to administer a pool of money, which are premiums paid by consumers, taxpayers, workers or employers.
Doctors and hospitals submit claims after treating patients who are also subscribers to these...
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