The $15B isn't the cost of the visits, it's the nurses adding on extra billable diagnosis to the patients to bill Medicare outside of their doctor's reviews/kno

The $15B isn't the cost of the visits, it's the nurses adding on extra billable diagnosis to the patients to bill Medicare outside of their doctor's reviews/knowledge. This was largely just a way to collect higher payments from Medicare. > Sixty percent of UnitedHealth home visits generated at least one new revenue-producing diagnosis of a condition no doctor was treating, the analysis showed.