Sujet : Re: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have
overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
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UnitedHealth Group is charging patients a markup for key life-saving
drugs that could easily exceed their cost by a factor of ten or more,
according to findings from the Federal Trade Commission
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The business that was managed by Thompson, the group's insurance arm
United Healthcare, had denied twice as many claims as the industry
average, according to figures from comparison site ValuePenguin.
Just this month, surgeon Elisabeth Potter recounted how she was in the
midst of operating on a breast cancer patient when an urgent call came
in from United Healthcare demanding proof the procedure was in fact
justified.
"It's out of control," she said in a video uploaded to TikTok,
"insurance is out of control."
https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/