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#BlueCross
Where is the #care in Health Care? "Blue Cross had stranded many of the center’s patients with high bills, amounts that it had absorbed over the years. On several occasions, though, Blue Cross executives had signed special one-time deals with the center, known as single case agreements, to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment."
To recap my health:
After arriving home from Indianapolis on Wednesday, I started experiencing stomach issues.
Slept pretty much all day Thursday, hardly eating.
Been experiencing lots of bathroom issues - nuff said there!
Constant fatigue and napping.
No high temperature.
Able to walk from room to room, but not stand for more than a few seconds.
This afternoon I had a video call with a LiveHealth Online Doctor via my Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance.
(Loved how the cost to me was $0)
The excellent Doctor and I discussed all my symptoms. She told me I was doing all the right things, including fluid intake especially electrolytes, and plenty of rest.
Therefore I drink and nap on.
Still glad I had the check-up call, which is now in my records.
#StomachIssues #LiveHealth #Anthem #BlueCross #BlueShield #Electrolytes
#BlueShield / #BlueCross offers $60 to ward off Luigis.
Dec 21st, 6 Luigi’s took banners to the Lamar pedestrian bridge in downtown #Austin, and danced to the #Mario theme song. Pedestrians, cheered, wrote letters to Luigi, and even took photos with the banners. Letters ranged from heart wrenching stories about family members being denied healthcare to love letters. Flyers calling out #BlueCross #blueshield the largest health insurance company in Texas, were handed out.
https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/luigi-rally-austin-tx/
Yet another reason we need universal health care without contributing to Insurance Company’s COE’s third yacht.
https://youtube.com/shorts/vWA2aQYXDbo?si=vHjqSgWW3gJ0IVfe
Even though BC pulled back on this ridiculous idea (stupid, insane, absurd...) you gotta see this parody!!!! It's classic
Excellent analysis from Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker on America’s health care fiasco
#mastomed #health #insurance #BlueCross #Anthem #UnitedHealth #Crime
#USpolitics #HealthCareRobbery #BlueCross
Bullying works !
Next etching: divident [for shareholders]
"Why CEOs Shouldn’t Dictate Surgery Timelines" [ < 1min]
by nowthis impact
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z06DutH0GYs
Quote by nti:
"Dec 6, 2024
We shouldn’t let business executives who've never been to med school decide how long a surgery should take"
"Many ppl got duped. #BlueCross: just trying to adopt the same anti-fraud rules MDCR *already* uses when paying anesthesiologists. A doctor trade group bullied them into backing down. American Society of Anesthesiologists was flat-out lying about the rule change.
BCBS' proposed policy wouldn't have cut off anesthesia if surgery takes too long. It'd have just set a cap on how much anesthesiologists can charge for surgeries -like MDCR does already.."
-M Chapman
#Healthcare
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/health/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-anesthesia-claim-limits
Via #RawStory @ 4:44pm
#Anthem #BlueCross #BlueShield has backed off plan 2 restrict how anesthesiologists r paid amid an uproar from a trade group
The change, proposed 4 #Connecticut, #NewYork & #Missouri, would have restructured how anesthesiologists can b charged 4 their work in surgeries 2 work more like #Medicare reimbursements; they would only b paid 4 a certain amount of time, & if the surgery ran longer, possibly due to complications, that would not be billable
For now at least...#Anthem #BlueCross Blue Shield calls off surgery anesthesia cap. Why it matters: The American Society of Anesthesiologists blasted the insurer for putting "an arbitrary time limit" on anesthesia care. This is far from over. More like testing the waters.#healthcare #insurance
less than 24 hours after the killing:
https://www.wfsb.com/2024/12/05/anthem-backtracks-anesthesiology-cap-policy-ct/
#healthcare #MedMastodon #unitedhealthcare #Anthembluecross #bluecross #healthinsurance
WTF?!! #Insurance #BlueCross #Anthem #BlueShield #NewYork #Connecticut #Missouri
(Thanks to #WilsonCruz for posting this on social media.)
Elevance Health: Insurer's Time Limits On Anesthesia Coverage During Surgeries
https://www.levernews.com/big-insurer-sets-time-limits-on-anesthesia-coverage-during-surgeries
* no longer automatically pay for anesthesia if procedure takes longer than time limit
* regardless of complications/other factors that impact operation time
Elevance Health [Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevance_Health
* formerly Anthem Inc.
* 20th on 2022 Fortune 500
* for-profit
#corporations #CorporateGreed #ElevanceHealth #Anthem #healthcare #BlueCross #BlueShield #capitalism
I have what I once thought was comprehensive coverage under #BlueCross - lessons have been learned - this is harbinger of what awaits us in 2025 & beyond as our #healthcare system and #medical #insurance are dismantled piece by piece. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures 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 #deny #denial #delay #depose
wh
what
blue cross blue shield wants to stop covering anesthesiology drugs behind a fixed amount of time during
_surgeries_?
so if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
_anaesthesia_?
i mean
i mean there's also the whole "nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team" but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vWA2aQYXDbo
#medicine #BlueCross #BlueShield #insurance #AmericanHealthCare #IsEvil
EMERGENCY! Three Indian puppies in distress near Guindy, SPIC Building, Chennai. Unable to reach #BlueCross. Can you help with food, shelter or relocation? Share/assist ASAP! #PuppyRescue #ChennaiVolunteer. Please contact the reporter to lend your helping hands.
Healthcare giant Blue Cross Blue Shield will pay $2.8 billion to avoid slew of lawsuits that the company & its affiliates conspired to split up geographic regions in the U.S. to prevent competition and reduce reimbursements to clients.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/blues-plans-agree-28b-settlement-provider-class-action-suit
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