STAT+: A check-in on health insurers’ medical costs, and more babies are being born
This week in health care business news: Rising costs hit health insurers, UnitedHealth AI lawsuit update, Dr. Oz profile, and more babies being born.
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Where the UnitedHealth class action lawsuit stands
“I knew from the minute I saw him, he was just the love of my life,” Mary Marfisee told me about her late husband, Frank Perry.
Perry died last September just two months shy of his 91st birthday after a couple years of falls and inadequate rehabilitative care left his body deconditioned. Perry had a UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan, which Marfisee said used artificial intelligence to cut his nursing home stays short, often before he could fully walk.
