Propublica just ran a good article on UHG's attempts to deny coverage to a university student with severe ulcerative colitis. Apparently the insurer has its own

Propublica just ran a good article on UHG's attempts to deny coverage to a university student with severe ulcerative colitis. Apparently the insurer has its own panels of MDs that it can deploy to lobby the patient's doctor into different courses of treatment. In this case, UHG staff completely fabricated statements from the patient's doctor in order to justify reducing care to an ineffective level. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...