A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
Fucking depraved. In a just world, every single person involved would get a one-way trip to
That isn’t exactly what the arrticle says, which is:
Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
So we don’t really know that it was ever changed without consent.
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients’ records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so they would die instead of being saved with medical interventions
Which is only slightly more terse way of saying the same thing.
The only question to me is so what extent this is a “secret”.
Could you clarify how that deviates from the title? I’m having trouble seeing the difference here. I think the emphasis is on the word “pressure.” They did not have consent.
That isn’t exactly what the arrticle says, which is:
So we don’t really know that it was ever changed without consent.
The title of the post reads
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients’ records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so they would die instead of being saved with medical interventions
Which is only slightly more terse way of saying the same thing.
The only question to me is so what extent this is a “secret”.
Could you clarify how that deviates from the title? I’m having trouble seeing the difference here. I think the emphasis is on the word “pressure.” They did not have consent.
That would imply they didn’t ask the people or went against their response. We don’t rven know if or how many people they marked as DNR.