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Mashup Score: 0Leaked docs reveal extensive noncompete agreements at Epic Systems - 1 month(s) ago
Is the largest electronic health record vendor in the United States using restrictive noncompete agreements to kneecap its employees and monopolize the market?
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Mashup Score: 1Private Medicare blitz: for-profit health insurers are pressing hard for new enrollees in their taxpayer-supported Medicare businesses in 2024 - 6 month(s) ago
In western Montana, an 81-year-old woman with diabetes is fighting with Humana, the seller of her Medicare Advantage plan and an aggressive marketer of Medicare insurance options. Humana, which holds the No. 2 spot for MA plan sales, is requiring the woman to pay the initial cost of $400 and then 90%, or $360, of the costs after that for a continuous blood glucose monitor her doctor says actually costs about $60 to $70 every two weeks.
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For-profit Medicare is not the answer. Thank you @Trudy_Lieberman & @wendellpotter for elevating this critical issue. We’re not getting more efficient care for our tax dollars with Medicare “Advantage”. We’re getting less care and making executives rich. https://t.co/YOhPFHkNqj https://t.co/RC0hDlayLi
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Mashup Score: 2UnitedHealth, CVS/Aetna, Cigna pulled in close to a trillion dollars last year, mostly as drug middlemen - 1 year(s) ago
The three companies’ PBM businesses now collectively generate more profits than their health insurance units.
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Mashup Score: 5How prior authorization can kill: a 2-year-old with cancer; a young woman needing chemo; and a 17-year-old in need of a transplant - 1 year(s) ago
One of the deadliest practices of Big Insurance is requiring doctors to get approval in advance in many cases before proceeding with treating their patients. It’s called prior authorization. Insurance companies know that a lot of people just give up and take a denial as the final word. An untold number of people die because of what essentially are death panels within Big Insurance.
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Mashup Score: 0CVS/Aetna's $9 billion in profits paid for a lavish party and stock buybacks. Not patients' medical claims. - 2 year(s) ago
CVS/Aetna’s spending included trips to Disney and a John Legend concert for employees.
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Mashup Score: 26
Anthem, Centene, Cigna, CVS/Aetna, Humana, and UnitedHealth are bigger today than they were 12 years ago because of numerous mergers, acquisitions and a new love for tax dollars.
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Mashup Score: 13UnitedHealthcare is caught in a PR nightmare. Here’s what they did and how it'll soon be your nightmare. - 3 year(s) ago
United’s plan? Refuse to pay your bill if one of their “denial nurses” decides you weren’t sick or hurt enough for the ER.
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Epic’s anticompetitive business practices are in the spotlight. How much is this behavior part of the problem driving our broken healthcare system? https://t.co/9KcyVNsYr9 https://t.co/No854WqhQl