To be fair, I've had doctors pad the bill. I'm lucky enough to have decent insurance and I have a few stories about doctors taking advantage of that.
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You know, at face value he's absolutely right. We shouldn't claim care that is unnecessary or maybe even harmful. But where we disagree is that I think that decision should be left to our medical professionals
Really what it should be is that if a doctor prescribes unnecessary care, they should go after the doctor, not the patient. Doctors have malpractice insurance. If the health insurance can't win a case of malpractice, then they should pay the bill. Why are patients in the midfle here at all.
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Insurance claims are approved or denied by medical professionals. In the state of NY it's even required for a specialist to approve or deny specialist care.
Some doctors are just absolute scum.
Even if this were the case (it is not in any real sense, see your other replies), the fact that it is done by a for profit entity that will lose money by approving a claim all but ensures the process will not be neutral or correct.
Except in this case, they used AI to help them make decisions. The lawsuit is still ongoing so I shouldn't speak in definitive terms, but considering the circumstances and evidence I think it's pretty clear than they have tried to automate some processes and didn't audit them properly.
Did it not work as intended, though?
I mean I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be a method of committing suicide
I don't have a source. But i've read they are incentivized to go through as many claims as they can, and not to approve too many.
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Did he not have a PR person tell him that video was a bad idea? Or more likely, did he not listen to their advice?
Headline says video was leaked. It was probably a private meeting. Agree that it was a stupid thing to say regardless.
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I know right?
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Did that guy just paint a big ol' target on himself?
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