#United Health

[bomberqueen17]

hilarious meds saga

Because our lives are a joke!

So my doctor right. In consultation with a psychiatrist, she wanted to prescribe me a medication. The psych advised starting me off on a 20mg dose. The pills don't come in 20mg. My doctor, unfamiliar with the medication, really didn't want to deviate from the psych's advice. So she tried to prescribe me 2x 10mg pills per day, 30 day supply.

My insurance's objection was not that this is a nonstandard dose, but rather that they won't give me 60 of any pill at once. That's unreasonable.

So I had to get 30 10mg pills.

My doctor, meanwhile, was like, oh, they won't do that number of pills. Well, it comes in a 25mg dose, so probably that's not too bad. Do that instead. So she sends a scrip for a 30 day supply of 25mg pills.

I've already filled the 10mg, and it had a co-pay of $29. Oh well. I can't like, return it.

But the pharmacy goes ahead and assembles me this new scrip. It's only been two days. I'm sure my insurance won't cover it. The easiest solution is to just go there and see what happens, so I do.

The pharmacy gives me 30 25mg pills. My insurance co-pay is $26.

It goes through.

Well okay then. So i'm taking the 2x 10mg dose my doc wanted all along, and when I run out I'll switch over to the 25mg pills I guess. Though maybe I should switch over early, because the next step was to titrate up to a 40mg dose. If i take a 25 for a bit, and then a 25+10, then the step up to 40 will be a smaller one. And I am finding that this med does give me some side effects, not terrible ones, but changing doses makes my guts unhappy. So a gentler change would really be nice.

But christ almighty. I can't have 60 pills, and a real live human looked at that and decided this, never thinking "yeah switch to the 25 instead". It is not how much medication I can have, it is how many pills.

It's all just ways to reject stuff and discourage people from receiving care. It's not a safety double-check at all. It's not even really convincingly pretending to be.

(If this were a controlled substance I feel like i would have been shit out of luck, but I don't know that!)

[evitcani-writes]

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

UPDATE/EDIT: Article is from July. I didn’t notice myself since it came up in my news feed. Don’t always trust the internet to be time accurate. 😎My guess is it is getting promoted due to current events. However, there are some updates concerning actions taken based on the report which you can look into by checking the authors’ other articles.

[bauliya]

Maybe if they give the NYPD another 10 billion dollars they can tell apart a grey jacket from an olive green one

[eldritch-bf]

NYPD: We’re asking for the public’s help identifying this suspect.

Every New Yorker: I never seen ‘em.

NYPD: We haven’t even shown you the photo yet.

[shirecorn]

I'm so sorry guys

[wastedandbasted]

The fact that United Healthcare and other providers are pulling down their pages of ceos is really telling.

[teenageexpertslimedream]

KOSA IS BACK, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

12-10-24

Those fuckers are making another big push for Kosa again and its just as bad as ever. This bill would give the government complete control of ehat people get to post on the internet with absolutely no oversight or anykind of democratic process. Its entire goal is to stomp out LGBTQ+ spaces, control what everyone in america gets to see and monitor your every move online. And if it passes now its garunteed to be used by the Trump administration.

They are pushing hard, push back harder

Call your congressmen and senators. Even if theyre republican and tell them your worried about democrats having this in the future or vice versa. Lie if you have to just appeal to whatever side they're on.

Congressmen

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Senators

[mementomoriarity]

breloom will be forever immortalised as being liked by a guy that killed an evil ceo while typhlosions reputation will forever be tarnished as he was exposed to be a groomer #noticing #firetypesareallthesame

[ismellpestilence]

This just goes to show how many liberals are just posturing to look morally superior. It's just following a trend to y'all. The NYPD shares the killer's face, and suddenly the ACAB crowd is doing their bidding by sharing the photos everywhere. But don't worry! They're doing it to show support by making fan edits of him!

[bl1tzkr1egfritz-1970]

someone we can't find, shot the CEO of united health and is now celebrate as a vigilante Hero. So before people think they can get away with an act of justice we just arrest a rando with a questionable Internet history.

People start asking questions? Just manufacture a "Drone Crisis" in New York.

[secondjulia]

If he'd killed cancer patients and widows, Luigi would be the real American hero. Allegedly.

[ace-of-bass]

Credit goes to X Dirty Fingers on Instagram - I just lifted it to post on Tumblr

[dailybehbeh]

Behbeh

[republicanidiots]

Seems like Luigi's charges were upgraded to Federal after they found out his parents could buy him good lawyers.

[eldritch-bf]

Let’s go baby.

[r3ked]

i have a bit of a wild idea: what if the backpack found in central park contained all the stuff they supposedly found luigi mangione with? it makes the story make a lot more sense: the shooter threw out the backpack to dispose of it, which the fbi then took and used to frame luigi mangione. it would also be a way for the shooter to get the manifesto out to the public. i might be onto something here (or maybe not im not a detective)