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CHICAGO – In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Anthem to reverse this proposal immediately.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 177 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 194 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Anthem Blue Cross appears to be a subsidiary of Elevance Health, whose CEO is Gail Koziara Boudreaux

She currently lives in Indianapolis, IN.

These are fun facts

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indianapolis has one of the highest rates of violent crime in the country.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awful, I bet a lot of those stay unsolved.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

I read it's hard to identify the bicycles criminals use to escape 🚲😂

[–] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 77 points 1 year ago

Another fun fact, she was previously a VP at UnitedHealth!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

That woman has killed MILLIONS of people! LEAVE HER ALONE! WE don't want her to get the UnitedHealthCare treatment! We want her Spry and Healthy so she can CONTINUE Killing Americans!

[–] Josey_Wales@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] phubarr@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He submitted a claim to be at large but was only approved for "at small"

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's amazing his claim was approved at all.

[–] phubarr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Upon further review, our underwriters determined the claim was to have been declined per the contract document outlining your coverage. Please be patient as we send a corrected summary of benefits which will reflect your updated balance. Please remit payment immediately upon receipt. Failure to do so can result in up to and including termination of benefits, your account being transferred to collections, and civil litigation.

Thank you for being a valued heathcare subscriber, where you have hypothetical benefits that you can't use or else you'll wish you had died instead of the alternate path where you'll be working for the rest of your pathetic life to pay off this one relatively minor incident, or else your credit will be ruined and you won't be able to buy nice things, which hopefully ushers you one step closer to homelessness, where it has become illegal in several municipalities and you will be forcibly relocated against your will and possibly beaten by police and have your remaining possessions destroyed for inconveniencing and annoying our most courageous of law enforcement officers*. Welcome to Costco, I love you.

*I've served my county as a firefighter/EMT and have seen this first hand, with my own eyes, more than once, so don't tell me it doesn't happen.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Must have missed a step edit or forgotten to submit page 104/103 of the prior auth.