'Out of control': Cancer surgeon claims UnitedHealthcare questioned her mid-procedure

Proud to say as of the first of the year I'm no longer insured with these dirtbags.

I'm now insured with some other dirtbags.

I sure wish someone would do something about this.

We need a hero. Someone who will do whatever it takes even sacrifice themselves if necessary to proclaim, "this is not okay. You will not get away with this."

Calling it now:

UHC will deny the anesthesia claim because they wont understand why they needed so much time to perform the procedure.

My partner had this same thing happen. She needed a neurosurgery to install a nerve stimulator in her neck. Her insurance approved a surgery to implant a test device, but then when it was determined it did solve her issues, denied the surgery for the permanent stimulator, forcing her neurosurgeon to write to them to get it approved. Then, during the surgery, they sent another denial. Fortunately, U of M is fantastic, and their hospital just covered the cost of the surgery due to the level of bullshit the insurance company pulled. Otherwise she would have ended up with multiple scars on her head and neck, and nothing to show for it, other than continuing nerve pain.

There are doctors and providers who just don't take UHC because they are such a pain in the ass to deal with.

Well, you assholes voted in trump and the republican cabal so dont expect any change soon.

Medical insurance companies should be forced to also provide life insurance to the same customer.

Then they have incentive to keep their customers alive.

I hope the surgeon said, at least, "Even if you conclude against my advice that it wasn't necessary based on your data before this call, it is most definitely necessary now, as the patient is open on my operating table at this moment." <slam>.

Cigna has this cool new thing they do where, after they deny a medication for our son, they have a nurse call us and tell us why our doctor was wrong to prescribe it in the first place. You know, because a nurse who has never been in the same room as my son knows more than the fucking doctor who examined him.

CEO got killed but everything still working as intended. For everyone who was worried I can bring relieve, UnitedHealthcare is still working well.

Police recovered bullets at the scene that read, "delay, deny, defend

Depose. Say it, DEPOSE.

I can understand this one instance being an editorial slip-up, but I’ve seen way too many news articles that reference the bullets while omitting that one particular word - depose.

It’s the word that scares the oligarchs the most. Which is all the more reason for us to repeat it, even if journalists won’t. DELAY, DENY, DEPOSE.

Doctors across the country need to adopt a "just fucking do it" attitude, and tell their legal departments to fuck off.

On this and other topics.

We need to make it a crime to deny claims on necessary healthcare. 10x penalty (paid to the victim directly) for denial. 30x if they were denied using AI or an automated system.

The Adjuster has entered the chat.

At this point if I ever switched jobs and the new employer had United Health Care I would politely thank them for their time and get up and walk out of the interview.

Insurance companies are parasites killing their host.

"we've done nothing and it's gotten worse!"

that's because you haven't been playing the game.

$17,000 for a mole extraction? nah....

One cannot be a true medical doctor in the USA.

At the very least there should be a law, forcing any health insurance to at least cover all costs needed to insure survival and long term health. And what is needed for survival and long term health is defined by the Doctor and not by the insurance company!!! Honestly, no idea why this is not law in any rich country in 2025!

You guys need other kind of UHC.

If you need experts, most of them are members of post-soviet communist partues and know how to build Semashko system.

I don't know any surgeons personally, not any more, but my ex-wife was an RN that worked exclusively in surgery. I can't see any of those people stepping out of a surgery for a call from the insurance company. Hell, I called her mid-surgery, thinking I was having a heart attack and she hesitated to leave. And she was just the nurse!

Most of those guys were seriously crusty. Just can't see a surgeon saying, "Gosh! I have to bail mid-procedure and take this insurance call!" For that matter, I can't see anyone who would dare interrupt a working surgeon for anything short of a drastic family matter, maybe not even then. Something smells about this story.