CHICAGO – In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Anthem to reverse this proposal immediately.
Did they see a healthcare CEO dead on the street and thought “this is the right moment to fuck with people”?
Who’s their CEO again?
Does Anthem Blue Cross, have a CEO?
Seems like they are encouraging Mal practices suits against doctors that rushed surgeries. Wonder if there a class action suit here or something.
The won’t cut the anesthesia, they will just send the patient a bill for thousands of dollars
Guess I need to hire a hypnotist. https://youtu.be/QMXbuEuNNk4?5BR_L-l-HzMIUJMF
It will cut the bill in half probably…
Right after the recent news about another healthcare CEO, this seems like a great way to get your own headline
Remember Brian Thompson.
What a great time to be alive and awake
Man, the timing on this announcement is breathtaking.
It isn’t - it was announced 11/14. As someone who follows healthcare news I really hope to fucking god more people start following it more closely.
Yeah but when and where is the shareholder meeting
Unfortunately, those are going to be zoom calls.
I wonder if there will ever be a participant-run health insurance company.
participant-run health insurance company
How would you envision that working? Like participants get to write their own coverage plans and decide their premiums/fees?
Health insurance was originally participant run - the old form of insurance is just a bunch of folks putting a chunk of money in a pot every so often in case they need it in an emergency. There are still health collectives like that in operation… though most of them are shitty religious people trying to dodge the ACA requirements.
I bet after this a new book was opened up on the large health care insurance orgs in Vegas.
I probably can’t buy in, but certainly would be entertaining.
When the police show up to investigate your murder, and they ask “Is there anyone who would wish to harm your Husband/Wife?” and your spouse just turns over your entire database of your clients, you’re the bad guy/girl.
Who is the CEO?
Anthem Blue Cross appears to be a subsidiary of Elevance Health, whose CEO is Gail Koziara Boudreaux
She currently lives in Indianapolis, IN.
These are fun facts
That woman has killed MILLIONS of people! LEAVE HER ALONE! WE don’t want her to get the UnitedHealthCare treatment! We want her Spry and Healthy so she can CONTINUE Killing Americans!
Indianapolis has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the country.
That’s awful, I bet a lot of those stay unsolved.
I read it’s hard to identify the bicycles criminals use to escape 🚲😂
Another fun fact, she was previously a VP at UnitedHealth!
Asking for a friend
Is this friend at large?
He submitted a claim to be at large but was only approved for “at small”
It’s amazing his claim was approved at all.
Upon further review, our underwriters determined the claim was to have been declined per the contract document outlining your coverage. Please be patient as we send a corrected summary of benefits which will reflect your updated balance. Please remit payment immediately upon receipt. Failure to do so can result in up to and including termination of benefits, your account being transferred to collections, and civil litigation.
Thank you for being a valued heathcare subscriber, where you have hypothetical benefits that you can’t use or else you’ll wish you had died instead of the alternate path where you’ll be working for the rest of your pathetic life to pay off this one relatively minor incident, or else your credit will be ruined and you won’t be able to buy nice things, which hopefully ushers you one step closer to homelessness, where it has become illegal in several municipalities and you will be forcibly relocated against your will and possibly beaten by police and have your remaining possessions destroyed for inconveniencing and annoying our most courageous of law enforcement officers*. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
*I’ve served my county as a firefighter/EMT and have seen this first hand, with my own eyes, more than once, so don’t tell me it doesn’t happen.
Must have missed a step edit or forgotten to submit page 104/103 of the prior auth.
If there’s anything that we should all be aware of when it comes to insurance companies, it’s that they will fuck you as hard, and as often as possible, unless there is a law specifically prohibiting it. Even then, they’ll still try to get away with it, counting on you being too poor to fight them in court.
Insurance companies are among the most predatory and despicable entities that exist, which is why they should all be nationalized and provided by right to citizens and funded by taxpayer dollars. Specifically, rich people paying taxes.
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Musk is offended that anyone else has anything at all. That’s a type of person he is.
Sorry, I deleted my comment because I didn’t think it was super relevant to yours lol
Anthem CEO better watch out
Maybe it is the beginning of eat the rich. I mean something has to be done about it and the governments are not doing shit.
Here’s hoping they get the United Healthcare treatment.
A United Healthcare retirement.
So deny their preventable death?
What, you don’t read the news?
Just choosing to phrase it with an air of plausible deniability paired with a pun related to the industry.
don’t worry, the people who continually vote this unregulated trainwreck into existence want to repeal obamacare, but want to keep their ACA
the term “medicare”, iirc, was first used to describe eisenhower’s dependents medical care act (for military families); and public-funded medical coverage for seniors (social security recipients) was first proposed during his administration (which ultimately passed congress under lbj, along with medicaid).
just take bernie’s medicare for all bill, that i’m sure he has written, rename it “the dwight d. eisenhower memorial health care act” and send it through.
Call it reagancare and no GOP politician would dare vote against it.
The GOP will just think of something snide to call it, Berniecare at best - CommieCare if they’re feeling spicy.
This is the same group of people who refused to call it the Democratic Party for so long, that “Democrat Party” (emphasis on the rat) has basically been normalised.
Don’t forget “Demoncrat”. Bet they hurt themselves adding that “n”.
Get the government out of health care! That’s between me, my doctor, and Medicare.
