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Apr 12, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: When Teresa Ross raised objections to the way her company was billing Medicare, they brought in a psychologist to talk to her.
“People aren’t seeing you as a team player,” she recalls being told.
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Ross is one of a number of whistleblowers who have come forward in recent years accusing health insurers of defrauding the government.
They say companies are inflating how sick their members appear to be to get higher payments from Medicare.
NEW: The country's largest health insurer is giving apartments to homeless people, not as an act of charity, but to deal with the extraordinary costs of caring for them.
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UnitedHealthcare is offering housing and support services to some of its most expensive homeless Medicaid patients, people with a complex blend of physical, social, and mental health challenges.
More than 4,000 people have been cut from Medicaid in Arkansas for not complying with the state's new work requirement, the first time that's been allowed since Congress created Medicaid in 1965 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The work requirement is the first to go into effect since the Trump administration opened the door for it in January
America has almost a thousand medical helicopters that transport patients in urgent situations. The services can be lifesaving, but expensive. 1/
The bills can typically be $30,000 or more, and the charges have gone up quickly -- more than doubled between 2010 and 2014, according to GAO. 2/ bloomberg.com/news/features/…
