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Anthem Blue Cross Won't Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Surgery

• ginkgotree 2y ago
  Health Insurance companies will continue to push the limits on how much they don't need to cover until there is a regulation change.
• deleted 2y ago
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• slater 2y ago
  looks like server has been hugged. archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241126202046/https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures https://web.archive.org/web/20241126202046/https://www.asahq...
• lfjhddfjas 2y ago
  Guess what the CEO of Anthem's last job was.
• MrHamburger 2y ago
  I would guess that doctors might find problematic for a patient to regain conciseness mid operation for a patient who can't afford full anesthesia.
• jfengel 2y ago
  Anthem's own press release: https://providernews.anthem.com/connecticut/articles/anesthesia-billed-time-units-commercial-22477 https://providernews.anthem.com/connecticut/articles/anesthe... They don't say what the "established number of minutes" are. Presumably there's a table somewhere. I darkly suspect it's based on the average time -- in which case half of the procedures will go over. Are the other providers also paid by the minute? I wonder if there's a surgeon going, "Well, that was easy. Let's just hang out here for a few minutes before closing up."