Sick Care

Banned From Care

Rachel Krause had just endured every expectant mother’s worst nightmare: a stillbirth. But the trauma she was about to experience at the hands of her corporate medical provider had just begun. Requests for her medical records and information about her health ultimately led to her and her husband being discharged from Optum’s care. Rachel and Sam share their story in this episode of Sick Care. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Collusion Game

Attorney Matt Lavin kept hearing the same complaint from doctors and hospitals being squeezed on reimbursements: look into MultiPlan. So he followed the money. In this episode of Sick Care, Lavin walks us through secret meetings and the lawsuit accusing MultiPlan and major insurers of allegedly colluding to rig out-of-network payments. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Diagnoses for Dollars

Jason Lomeyer spent nearly a decade inside HouseCalls. He says clinicians were nudged to stack diagnoses, helped along by incentives from Vegas retreats to financial perks. His account raises fundamental questions about Medicare Advantage…and the corporations running it. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Sick In Every Way

If you think waiting on hold for hours to speak to your health insurer is bad, get a load of this. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Introducing SICK CARE

Curiosity led local journalist Adam Stone down a rabbit hole of investigating the corporate medical world: a path he didn’t expect to take. In this episode, we hear Stone’s story of building a community newspaper group and the circuitous path that brought him to this reporting. His work has helped detail how greed, red tape, and lost humanity are making the health care system sicker in Westchester County, NY, and across the nation, harming both patients and health care workers alike. You can check out more of Adam's reporting at The Examiner News. [https://www.theexaminernews.com/category/investigations/optum/] Sick Care is a production of No Smiling, Examiner Media, and Little Everywhere. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.