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Mashup Score: 3A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. - 13 day(s) ago
Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
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Mashup Score: 72A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. - 14 day(s) ago
Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.
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Mashup Score: 0Friends of the Court - 29 day(s) ago
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong friendship with real estate tycoon Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito’s luxury travel with billionaire Paul Singer have raised questions about influence and ethics at the nation’s highest court.
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Mashup Score: 1How the U.S. Waged a Global Campaign Against Baby Formula Regulation - 2 month(s) ago
Records and interviews show that the U.S. government repeatedly used its muscle to advance the interests of large baby formula companies while thwarting the efforts of Thailand and other developing countries to safeguard children’s health.
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Mashup Score: 9This Researcher Warned of Unnecessary, Risky Vascular Procedures. She Was Called a “Nazi” and Accused of “Fratricide.” - 2 month(s) ago
After Dr. Caitlin Hicks and her team revealed that some doctors appeared to be overusing lucrative vascular procedures, performing them on patients who may not have needed them, they received hostile pushback from across the profession.
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Mashup Score: 13Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committee - 3 month(s) ago
In states that banned abortion, doctors are left to wrestle with tough decisions about high-risk pregnancy care. “I don’t want to have a patient die and be responsible for it,” one Tennessee doctor said.
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Mashup Score: 20After Promising to Make Government Health Care Data More Accessible, the Biden Administration Now Wants to Clamp Down - 3 month(s) ago
Researchers across the country fear a new proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will increase fees and decrease access to data used to support major health care reforms.
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Mashup Score: 5
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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Mashup Score: 18After Promising to Make Government Health Care Data More Accessible, the Biden Administration Now Wants to Clamp Down - 3 month(s) ago
Researchers across the country fear a new proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will increase fees and decrease access to data used to support major health care reforms.
Source: www.propublica.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Expert PicksTweet
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Mashup Score: 18After Promising to Make Government Health Care Data More Accessible, the Biden Administration Now Wants to Clamp Down - 3 month(s) ago
Researchers across the country fear a new proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will increase fees and decrease access to data used to support major health care reforms.
Source: www.propublica.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Expert PicksTweet
A Doctor at @Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly: Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. https://t.co/tjaAjdf75O via @PatrickMRucker et al