Put Care Over Cost
UnitedHealth Group
On July 16th, UnitedHealth Group announced second-quarter profits, grossing $7.9 billion — money from premiums and the public that could have gone to paying for medically necessary care. How’d they do this? By denying us our health care and lining their pockets instead. Greedy executives at private health insurance corporations like United make life-altering decisions for the rest of us by refusing to pay for care when we need it most!
UnitedHealth Group’s profiteering by denying care is a disgrace, leaving people across the country without the care they desperately need. UnitedHealth is using our public money and our money from our jobs to profit while denying care to us and our loved ones — that ain't right!
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UnitedHealth Group
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UnitedHealth Group – we demand that you:
- Execute a publicly shared audit and reimburse federal and state governments for the public money diverted by claim and prior-authorization denials within Medicaid (Managed Care), and Medicare (Medicare Advantage);
- Stop the overbilling of Medicare by your corporation’s Medicare Advantage plans & the overbilling of state Medicaid plans by your managed care plans;
- Stop denying claims and overturn any existing denials for treatments recommended by medical professionals
- Expedite payment of claims;
- Stop denying claims and overturn any existing denials for treatments covered by Medicare/Medicaid rules;
- Immediately cease the practice of using Artificial Intelligence and algorithms to initiate claims denials in bulk;
- Make public details of denied claims/prior-authorizations by market, plan, state, geography, gender, disability and race;
- Disclose monetary value of total denied claims/prior-authorizations broken down by internal and external appeals processes and total percentage of profits taken by denying care for your corporation;
- Hold quarterly open microphone meetings with policyholders to discuss problems with your insurance products in each state you sell insurance in just as you hold public meetings with your shareholders to discuss the profits
- Relinquish ownership of and transfer over the claim appeals process to relevant public authorities;
- Accept an in-person meeting to discuss these demands and to reverse the specific care and claim denials in the cases we will bring to you in that meeting; and
- Cease overriding the will of people who need health care by lobbying and donating your members’ money to politicians’ campaigns, PACs and any other entities that can advocate for or against the defeat of elected officials.
- Cease using public funds and policyholder premiums for stock buybacks
- Document and publicly release the time and money spent by healthcare professionals and policyholders requesting prior-authorizations for treatments that are eventually approved
It's past time for you to put care over cost!