UnitedHealth Was Sued for Approving TOO MUCH Medical Care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKgostRq0ZE

 

Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers | US Medicare | The Guardian

In several cases identified by the Guardian, nursing home residents who needed immediate hospital care under the program failed to receive it, after interventions from UnitedHealth staffers. At least one lived with permanent brain damage following his delayed transfer, according to a confidential nursing home incident log, recordings and photo evidence…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers 

 

Health care package included in stopgap funding bill

The health portion contains pharmaceutical benefit manager (PBM) industry reforms, extensions of Medicare telehealth flexibilities, reauthorizations of legislation to prevent pandemics and address the opioid crisis, payments to community health centers, a rollback of physician payment cuts and other policies. 

The inclusion of more than 500 pages of health provisions in a spending bill will likely infuriate some conservatives, who generally oppose omnibus legislation. But the health provisions show bipartisan agreement after significant back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5045169-health-care-package-pbms-funding-bill/

Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care — ProPublica

More than 200 million Americans are covered by private health insurance. But data from state and federal regulators shows that insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment. Many people, faced with fighting insurance companies, simply give up: One study found that Americans file formal appeals on only 0.1% of claims denied by insurers under the Affordable Care Act. 

Insurers have wide discretion in crafting what is covered by their policies, beyond some basic services mandated by federal and state law. They often deny claims for services that they deem not "medically necessary."…

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis