{"id":84233,"date":"2023-02-02T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=84233"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:02:48","slug":"a-doctor-paid-by-united-healthcare-concluded-that-denying-payments-for-mcnaughtons-treatment-could-put-his-health-at-risk-but-the-company-buried-his-report-and-did-not-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=84233","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2026 a doctor paid by United [Healthcare] concluded that denying payments for McNaughton\u2019s treatment could put his health at risk, but the company buried his report and did not consider its findings\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis\">Link<\/a>. It&#8217;s a long dense report &#8212; and murkier than the headline. A very sick patient responds to an essentially experimental therapy that is clearly outside the terms of the obscure contract Penn State signed with UHC. When sued UHC  folded rather than risk a jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. It&#8217;s a long dense report &#8212; and murkier than the headline. A very sick patient responds to an essentially experimental therapy that is clearly outside the terms of the obscure contract Penn State signed with UHC. When sued UHC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=84233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-84233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84234,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84233\/revisions\/84234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}