TLDR: The insurance company has a new policy, set to take effect in February 2025, where they decide how much anesthesia is needed for surgeries. They won’t pay for any anesthesia over that, with exemptions for maternity and pediatric cases and for Connecticut providers.
The article also notes the insurance company reported a $2.3 billion net income increase in June 2024.
Edit to update: Anthem now says they won’t put this policy into effect
So, at the absolute most charitable interpretation, this punishes patients for having a slow surgical staff or for a surgery having complications. Like most insurance things, punishing the patient for shit completely outside of their control.
On top of this, best outcome of this (for doctors to try and ensure their patients don’t need to decide between potential financial ruin or surgery) would be for all surgical departments to wildly inflate their surgery times so they can’t ever be over estimate. This will significantly reduce the amount of surgeries able to be completed per day, and hike up the price even more as they have to bill for more time.
The only possible justification for this is attempting to find another place to lower financial costs to the insurance company at any “cost”. I miss when these people had enough shame to not go this mask off.
This actually sets a time limit for anesthesia regardless of procedure or estimated time from the doctors.
It’s entirely up to the insurance company to set an arbitrary time with which they think medical care should be provided within and deny past.It’s nothing but appalling cruelness for the sake of it, and a few extra dollars for a CEO and board of Directors that deserve the opposite of health care.
It was already reversed.
We got them scared
They should be.
I propose a guillotine emoji.
🧑🌾
usually when a thing is reversed due to outrage, the entity will simply wait a few months to quietly put said thing into effect again
Didn’t verify, but someone said it was only reversed in like one out of the five proposed states. Figures
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The doctor took too long, and now your coverage is gone. That’s what happened. Bakow!
So it’s time to murder another ceo?
Self defense is not murder
Rejecting torture.
Sorry, I misspoke
The patient has a right to defend themselves and should get access to 2000 pound bombs.
Is this a reference to something?
Yes
What is it?
The IDF likes to defend themselves with 2000 pound bombs.
Oh
🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽
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One can hope
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Koziara_Boudreaux
She also worked for UnitedHealth as an executive, just saying
She was their CEO for a while.
“One of the reasons that she has remained so active in this particular field is because she has seen what it does to people when they can’t get insurance to cover the healthcare they need."
Sadists.
“One of the reasons that she has remained so active in this particular field is because she has seen what it does to people when they can’t get
insurance to coverthe healthcare they need."FTFY. It makes the people desperate enough to buy her product.
“In 2023, she made $21.9 million.” (Wikipedia)
"One of the reasons that she has remained so active in this particular field is because she has seen what it does to people when they can’t get insurance to cover the healthcare they need,” Money Inc. wrote.
Money Inc
…and she liked it.
That’s a nice CEO you got there. Be a shame if something happened to them.
Or would it
This is fucking insane
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said in a statement that its decision to backpedal resulted from “significant widespread misinformation” about the policy.
Ah, yes, if people complain about being mistreated, it is always “Our plan was misunderstood”, or “The critique is based on misinformation”…
Well I certainly hope we don’t need to see someone step in to explain to the company how wrong this is.
That’s right. Rush the surgeons. That will end well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Koziara_Boudreaux
Evil comes in all shapes and sizes.
From January 2011 to November 2014, she served as the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare
Small world, when you move in those circles. Imagine how these people convince themselves they’re doing something good and admirable.
Round is a shape. She’s in shape! Pre-existing condition. Claim denied.
and for Connecticut providers
Anybody from Connecticut care to respond. Why is your state so special?
Don’t they have the closest thing to universal healthcare in the US?
From a more recent article where Anthem now says they won’t implement this policy:
Connecticut comptroller Sean Scanlon said the “concerning” policy wouldn’t affect the state after conversations with the insurance company. And New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in an emailed statement Thursday that her office had also successfully intervened.
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