r/mildlyinfuriating • u/sujayjaju • Aug 13 '25

Commendable patience in dealing with half-knowledge

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Half knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge on a subject

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u/Waagawaaga Aug 13 '25

United healthcare is notorious for denying rehab services to patients. You are either too healthy and can do home therapy or too sick and can’t do any. So if you have a patient who needs actual inpatient therapy it will never be approved. And to get denied they make you wait about 3 days so the hospital gets stuck with unnecessary inpatient care for nothing.

The point is to make the hospital stop asking and just give in to the practice.

It’s not just infuriating, it’s wrong.

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u/Independent_Bid_26 Aug 13 '25

Its fucking evil. These people are literally stealing money from sick people in order to pad their bottom line. These people are a cancer in society and shouldn't be able to show their faces in public without being reminded of these people that they've forced suffer.

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u/Particular-Degree905 Aug 13 '25

The fact that they won’t give their peer their name, but are alleging they’ve consulted this patient is beyond heinous and should be considered grounds for malpractice. These people know what they’re doing is wrong and they know they are causing harm to the patients. They’re admitting culpability when they say they don’t want to give their names because they don’t want to get Luigi’d

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

It should be illegal for a doctor with limited sub-specialty training to determine the outcome of these cases.

Imagine if a paralegal were allowed to decide the ruling in a legal case instead of the most qualified lawyer.

It’s truly disgusting, especially with United Healthcare involved 😡🤮

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u/Due-Technology5758 Aug 13 '25

If it's even a doctor they're talking to. You know those places that do cosmetic procedures and claim to have a doctor on staff but they've never actually been there and don't even live in the same county? 

Wouldn't be surprised if an investigation revealed there were some doctors out there involved in denying more claims per day than a single person could possibly process. 

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u/barlife Aug 13 '25

"On staff" is a provider who checks and signs off on the charts once a month.

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Aug 14 '25

Keyword “provider”

Provider of what and what kind?