#optum

But also we can aim higher. UHC is small potatoes. You know who has their hands in everything? UHG. The parent company. UHC, Optum, Humana, EXL health, hell they even have a hand in a decent portion of Anthem plans PLUS control a large portion of the Community Care Network for the Veterans’s Administration.

You know what else they control? BILLING. FOR MEDICAL PROVIDERS. More providers than you’d ever want to think use Optum as their billing company! So not only do they likely have their hands in your health insurance, they are also the company BILLING your insurance. Hello, incorrect CPT & DX codes that get denied!

Change Healthcare? A massive medical billing agency. Services a lot of EMS providers. It’s Optum owned. They got hacked at the beginning of this year. There are medical providers who still cannot bill insurance for their services at least 8 months later because they have no access to the system. So they send a bill to the patient hoping to recoup something because they can’t generate the ‘official’ bills insurance needs. (If you want my rant about false medical bills you’ll have to ask cause that’s a different conversation.)

Guess who else had a major hack this year? United Healthcare. I didn’t mention it earlier but they’re also AARP! So the company that has a strong hold on retired veterans, retired citizens, and people who are disabled/on SSDI basically had 2 major data breaches this year. Your health insurance has all of your info; age, date of birth, SSN, address, job, pretty much everything.

Optum also used to have its hands in Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, although I believe HPHC split from them either last year or this year. It was recent.

“There is no privatisation of the NHS on my watch,” Matt Hancock assured MPs earlier this year. Boris Johnson has since echoed his words: “We are absolutely resolved. There will be no sale of the NHS, no privatisation.”

Look at the message US private healthcare firms are giving their investors, however, and a different story emerges.

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism