UnitedHealth has been revealed to have used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients, including those in nursing homes or with cognitive impairment. Internal documents obtained by STAT show that the company denied rehab care requests from specific groups of patients. The investigation by STAT journalists, including @bobjherman and @caseymross, has uncovered these secret rules, shedding light on the denial of rehab care for Medicare Advantage members.
The latest edition of STAT's Health Care Inc. newsletter touches on UnitedHealth’s rehab restrictions, Texas medical school drama, and health care’s biggest profits. Read it here. https://t.co/x81OXxfRKo
UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested by specific groups of seriously ill patients, including those who lived in nursing homes or suffered from cognitive impairment. https://t.co/LQYpORcQe9
All year @caseymross @bobjherman have investigated how UnitedHealth and NaviHealth have cut off rehab care for Medicare Advantage members. Each story is more head-turning than the last. Worth diving into. The latest published Thursday: https://t.co/9ZEjxWGC41
A STAT INVESTIGATION UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients https://t.co/5LVlUpuZEj
NEW: All year, @caseymross and I have explored how UnitedHealth and NaviHealth have cut off rehab care for Medicare Advantage members. Turns out, there also were secret rules to deny people from getting rehab care in the first place. Our latest: https://t.co/7Xf2M2SxUc
In another installment of powerful, revelatory journalism, @bobjherman and @caseymross show how UnitedHealth had secret internal rules in place to make decisions about rehab care for seriously ill #MedicareAdvantage patients: https://t.co/dxwqo3YQGF via @statnews
EXCLUSIVE: New STAT investigation reveals how UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients Latest in series by @bobjherman @caseymross https://t.co/9ZEjxWGC41 via @statnews
UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for seriously ill Medicare Advantage patients in nursing homes or with cognitive impairment, according to internal documents obtained by STAT https://t.co/VqY8uLiowy via @statnews
EXCLUSIVE: UnitedHealth used secret rules to restrict rehab care for patients who lived in nursing homes or had cognitive impairment — and then tossed them out amid @statnews investigations of denials in Medicare Advantage. W/@bobjherman: https://t.co/H305aMJ0rr via @statnews
UnitedHealth used secret rules to route rehab care requests from some Medicare Advantage patients for denial, internal documents show. https://t.co/zPTWvexZrn