Blog: New United laboratory policy puts profits ahead of patient care
In this blog post, Terrence Cunningham, AHA director of administrative simplification policy, highlights how United HealthCare’s Designated Diagnostic Provider program could reduce patient access to care and choice of provider, as well as subject patients to a higher risk of an unanticipated medical bill.
“The health care system has been moving toward giving patients a more active role in their care,” Cunningham writes. “Unfortunately, United’s prioritization of profits over patients runs amok of this concept.”
Read the full blog here.
Related News Articles
Headline
AdventHealth’s Be a Mindleader initiative aims to help children and parents become more comfortable discussing mental health and connect families to counseling…
Headline
Access to quality mental and physical health services can be a complex challenge, but for individuals of color and people with severe or chronic mental…
Blog
EnglISH¿Qué pasa si una conversación puede cambiar, o incluso salvar, una vida? Esa fue la pregunta que AdventHealth buscó responder, cuando el sistema de…
Blog
ESPAÑOLWhat if one conversation can change, or even save, a life? That was the question AdventHealth sought to answer, as the health system launched a…
Headline
The AHA July 11 released its quarterly Health Care Plan Accountability Update, a roundup of news, letters, statements and other resources covering private…
Headline
The AHA submitted a statement July 11 for a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on health care transparency and lowering health care costs. The AHA…