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According to Natural News, not only
are customers losing their insurance plans, but now, insurance companies are
dropping physicians from coverage plans as well.
As reported by The Wall Street
Journal (WSJ):
“UnitedHealth Group, Inc., the
nation's largest provider of privately managed Medicare Advantage plans, has
dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks - spurring
protest from lawmakers and physician groups and leaving many elderly patients
unsure about whether they need to switch plans to keep seeing their doctors.”
The paper said physicians in at
least 10 states have received termination letters. Some of those letters have
cited "significant changes and pressures in the health-care
environment."
In addition, the notices inform
doctors that they can appeal the decision within 30 days, but that means
doctors and patients won't know for certain who is in, and who is out of,
UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage networks before open enrollment to switch
Medicare plans ends on Dec. 7.
The insurer said its provider
networks change constantly, and it expects its Medicare Advantage network
"to be 85 percent to 90 percent of its current size by the end of
2014." But the company would not say how many providers are being curbed
in individual states, or what criteria it is using to cut them
Company officials say they are
making their decision based on financial concerns - concerns that are being
influenced solely by the mandates contained in Obamacare. Officially, they say
United Healthcare is taking the action to provide more value for its customers,
but that is corporate-speak for, "We're making this move because we've
been forced to do it."
"That's what's driving our
actions," Austin Pittman, president of UnitedHealth's networks, told WSJ.
"It's no secret that we are under substantial funding pressure from the
federal government."
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