Incredible piece in @propublica on the dark underbelly of #healthcare #insurance — making profit margins off of denying claims (aka healthcare) to its members when they need it most propublica.org/article/cigna-…
If time is money, this is what @Cigna thinks the health of its members is worth: 1.2 seconds 
It’s not just @Cigna, it’s all the big insurers — @UHC @AnthemBCBS @Aetna - multiple lawsuits filed for the amount of denials they have, but it’s more profitable for them to rampantly deny claims and settle the class action lawsuits later than it is to just do the service they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Don’t be fooled — the stars of these healthcare insurers are not the doctor “peers” they employ, it’s the lawyers, lobbyists and finance teams that create the vision of paying as little as possible for healthcare of its members while collecting the most premiums.
This was not @Cigna, but all the big insurers have these internal “algorithms” to deny as much as possible. Sadly, they aren’t even rooted in @CMSGov rules for CPTs. They’re playing a game where they set the rules and neither patients or doctors can ever win.
https://twitter.com/amyfaithho/status/1638617707200258077
In fact, they literally count on patients not ‘winning’ and being too downtrodden to fight it (after all…they’re probably worn down and weakened, having, y’know only recently been sick/hospitalized…)
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