Comment on this storyComment You are reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter about coping with covid-19 and other public health challenges. Click here to receive the full newsletter in your inboxincluding answers to readers’ questions and a summary of new scientific research. Should hospitals and other healthcare settings maintain mask requirements, even if they have long been abandoned in virtually all other settings? This is a very controversial issue. Some leading experts have argued that the disadvantages of hospital masking mandates outweigh the benefits, while others argue for…
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Health Insurance Claim Denials Are On The Rise And Getting Weirder | Expert opinion
Millions of Americans in recent years have stumbled upon this experience: filing a claim for health insurance that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If insurers’ experience and explanation often seems arbitrary and absurd, this could be because companies seem increasingly willing to employ computer algorithms or people with little relevant experience to issue rapid-fire claim denials sometimes packets at the time without reviewing the patient’s medical records. One job title in one company was denial nurse. It’s a practical way for insurers…
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