Source: The American Prospect
by Maureen Tkacik
“Valerie O’Meara had been working as a nurse for the Polyclinic in Seattle for over a month before it dawned on her that she actually worked for the risk adjustment department of the health insurance juggernaut UnitedHealth. A physician had interviewed her for the job. Her employment contract named a gastroenterologist she had never met as the owner and medical director of the practice. But it was a risk adjustment manager Zooming in from Minnesota, where UnitedHealth is based, who told her where to report for duty each morning and increasingly micromanaged her patient visits. ‘Aren’t you using the QuantaFlo to check if your patients have peripheral artery disease?’ the risk adjustment guy would ask. She had never heard of a QuantaFlo, or proactively trying to test random Medicare patients for a condition as obscure and slow-moving as peripheral artery disease (PAD).” (03/07/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-07-did-luigi-save-unitedhealth-case/