Doctors are raising alarm about insurance company’s plan to put time limit on coverage for anesthesia during surgery

www.cnn.com Doctors are raising alarm about insurance company’s plan to put time limit on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN

Anesthesiologists are raising alarm about an insurance company’s plan to limit the amount time they cover for anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. One major professional group of anesthesiologists is calling for immediate reversal of the “unprecedented move,” saying it’s egregious and uninfo...

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Article title now reads: "Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery "
Strange. I wonder why?

Anthem Blue Cross’ CEO Gail Boudreaux made 22 million dollars last year. Funny how the penny pinching only works in one direction

Tl;dr: “It’s a cynical exercise in figuring out a way to reject more claims initially, knowing that a number of those are just going to fall off and never be paid,”

Interesting timing…

No they're not. Doctors are talking about it, just like everyone else is, because it's blatantly evil, and divorced from the basic concept of healthcare, and anyone that reads even a single sentence about it can tell