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ResourceWhy UnitedHealthcare Really Cut 1700 Prior Authorizations
Jimothy confronts his boss about a headline claim that UnitedHealthcare removed many services from prior authorization, and Flanary …
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ResourcePrior Authorizations Suck: Peer-to-Peer Calls
A satirical sketch built from peer-to-peer prior authorization calls, with Jimothy-style insurer characters denying dialysis, ACL …
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ResourceFamily Medicine Needs Boundaries
A montage satirizes family medicine's impossible scope: the physician delivers babies, admits and discharges hospital patients, …
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ResourceUnited Healthcare Interrupts Surgery
UnitedHealthcare calls into an operating room mid-procedure to withdraw approval for a post-operative admission it had already …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: United Healthcare Goes to Therapy
This 30 Days of US Healthcare sketch puts a personified UnitedHealthcare in a therapy session arranged by a worried Jimothy. The …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: Psychiatry Peer to Peer
Part of the 30 Days of US Healthcare series, this sketch stages a peer-to-peer call where a psychiatrist seeks approval for a …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: United Healthcare Denies Everything
A rapid-fire montage has a UnitedHealthcare representative denying or delaying an unbroken stream of treatments, from glucose …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: Insurance Kickbacks
This 30 Days of US Healthcare sketch, presented here with Arabic captions, follows a pharmacist trying to fill a generic asthma …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: Ortho peer to peer
In this 30 Days of US Healthcare entry, an orthopedic surgeon does a peer-to-peer call with a UnitedHealthcare reviewer over a …
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Resource30 Days of US Healthcare: Prior Authorizations
In this Arabic-captioned 30 Days of US Healthcare origin story, an insurance executive explains to Jimothy the invention of prior …
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ResourceJimothy Takes a Trip
Jimothy, the UnitedHealthcare administrative assistant, narrates how burnout from denying claims drove him to travel to Canada for …
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ResourceHow to Order a Medication
A clinician tries to get coverage for a prescribed medication, an EpiPen for a child with severe peanut allergy, and Flanary stages …
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ResourceHow to Get an MRI
A doctor calls the prior authorization line for a brain MRI for a patient with symptoms the sketch describes as concerning for a …
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ResourceHappy Bonus Day
In an insurer's office, staff present their chief executive with a cake to celebrate a large bonus, while recurring insurance …
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ResourcePrior Authorizations For Everybody!
Jimothy's boss wants to require prior authorization for every cataract surgery to delay care and hold onto premiums, and Flanary …
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ResourceUnited Healthcare celebrates Doctor’s Day!
A UnitedHealthcare executive decides to mark Doctor's Day by personally calling physicians with a greeting, ignoring his assistant …
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