Tag: Health Policy

Love your Medicare Advantage plan? It does NOT love you back

          THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   Will Humana and UnitedHealth Group be found by the courts to have prematurely denied or cut off physician-ordered post-acute care for Medicare Advantage members using AI models with error rates as high as 90%? […]

BS, Gaslighting & AI: Demystifying the health insurance denial process

            THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   Imagine watching your mom suffer a stroke and two seizures that left her unable to use her right side… and then having her Medicare Advantage health insurer deny coverage for the nursing home […]

Profit, Prejudice and the Price of Care

               THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   How do health insurance hassles, such as denials and preauthorizations, exacerbate inequities in our broken healthcare system? How do they rob physicians of precious time caring for patients and even jeopardize […]

When Insurers Play Doctor: How Corporate Greed Ties Physicians’ Hands and Harms Patients

              THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   Why can working as a doctor in America feel like being on a battleground? What questionable tactics are insurance companies using? How are they affecting patients and physicians alike? And when coverage […]

Billionaires vs. Our Benefits: Who Really Wins With Social Security Cuts?

          THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   What would cutting off or limiting Social Security benefits – or privatizing Social Security – mean for the roughly 68 million retirees who rely on such benefits? And what could that mean for those […]

How Many Must Die? America’s Health Crisis

        THIS TIME ON CODE WACK!   Why are some 200,000 Americans dying each year due to issues with their health insurance and access to care? Would a single-payer healthcare system put a stop to this?  To find out, we interviewed Dr. […]