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The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson highlights deep frustrations with America’s health insurance industry – an issue dramatized long earlier in the 2002 film
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson highlights deep frustrations with America’s health insurance industry – an issue dramatized long earlier in the 2002 film
In this article, I wanted to tie into what contributor Matthew Albright was recently talking about relative to what’s going on in home and community-based
Are you sick of me writing about the Medicare Change of Status Notice (MCSN) yet? Too bad! Many of you continue to challenge me with
It is all too common for patients and physicians to take to social media to air grievances about insurance company misdeeds. A recent case generated
It was a story that immediately captured the nation’s collective attention and wouldn’t let go for the better part of a week: a masked shooter
A “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting last Wednesday in midtown Manhattan of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, Brian Thompson, has been arrested
News reports have revealed that the ammunition used in the fatal shooting earlier this week of Brian Thompson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for UnitedHealthcare (UHC),
Nearly 20 hours after an assailant fatally shot Brian Thompson, chief executive officer for UnitedHealthcare (UHC), the manhunt continues for what witnesses described as a
Well, I gave you all a break from my criticism of insurance company policies and ploys last week, and I had planned to go for
Let me start with a few updates today. I discussed last week the national intravenous fluid shortage. What I had not heard at that point
Four months after a significant cyberattack forced its systems offline, a UnitedHealth subsidiary, Change Healthcare, has disclosed a major data breach. In a recent notification,
Today I have two small things and then a really big thing to cover. First up, LinCare, a home oxygen supplier, was fined $29 million
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