UHC still making news..
UnitedHealthcare Calls Doctor Mid Surgery To Ask If Her Patient’s Overnight Stay Is necessary.
Despite being the subject of a full month of scrutiny in the wake of its CEO's murder, UnitedHealthcare is, somehow, still denying necessary insurance claims — and one surgeon has taken to social media to speak out about it. In a post on TikTok, Texas surgeon Elisabeth Potter seemed...
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"During a breast reconstruction procedure, Dr Potter said she was contacted in the operating room and told that a UHC rep had called and needed to speak to her right away about the patient she was operating on. She scrubbed out and gave the "gentleman," a call — only to be questioned about the woman's diagnosis and "whether her inpatient stay should be justified."
"I was like, 'do you understand that she's asleep right now and she has breast cancer?'" Potter recounted. "And the gentleman said, 'actually, I don't — that's a different department that would know that information.'"