Thread by @life_is_art___

Just so everyone knows, private ins. companies and CMS joined with the feds to go after opioids and doctors, with $ from tort litigation being the end-game. For example: BCBS Michigan supplied the dea under-covers with fake mris to trick MDs & then when they rxed, arrested them!

Now BCBS gets to sue opioid manufacturers for billions. The corruption is unbelievable. We have MDs sitting in prison so companies could get rich from these lawsuits.

We have patients that have DIED b/c of this. THIS IS NOT ABOUT KEEPING PPL SAFE. If it was, the cdc would have tracked what happens to the MDs and patients after they made all the changes. Instead, they CHOSE to only track how much they could reduce prescribing. This is a SCAM.

The BCBS rep from NC admitted working with the attorneys general at a 2018 DUKE Margolis meeting with payers. At this same meeting, Kit Delgado said many ODs were now patients w/severe pain coming into the ER that had been abandoned by their PCPs after the GLs were implemented.

Here’s the document explaining the secret FHPP partnership: cms.gov/Outreach-and-E…

More evidence of BCBS collaborating with law enforcement. healthpayerintelligence.com/news/opioid-us…

“The BCBSA FEP SIU provides training for industry partners, including law enforcement and Blue Plan SIU investigators, on topics related to prescription fraud & drug diversion, w/a focus on the opioid epidemic”….bcbs.com/sites/default/…

“Last year, BCBSM conducted 200 undercover operations in which investigators posed as patients.
Those criminal rings can be difficult to break up, as the patient base consists primarily of addicts who rely on the success of the scheme to maintain supply”
fiercehealthcare.com/antifraud/data…

They flag based off data analytics & then entrap:

”We couldn't make these cases without doing the undercover investigation," he says. "These [data analytic] tools are great to highlight something, but nothing can replace the legwork. You just can't do it on those numbers alone."