Unitedhealthcare accuses Guardian of trying

Unitedhealtcare shaped the Guardian with a lawsuit demand on a story for the publication related to his turnover for nursing home residents.

In question, there is the story of May 21 of Guardian, who claimed that the giant welfare made secret payments to nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers to try to save money.

The lawsuit, which was filed in the High Court of Delaware at the end of Wednesday, claims that Guardian had published false and demonstrably false information, and sought to take advantage of the media’s interest in the slaughter of his then CEO Brian Thompson in New York.

The care company stated that the Guardian used internal emails – which published fragments of – were cited out of context. United Healcare also disputed some of the characterizations of the medical events of Guardian Detalts in his exhibition

“The Guardian published a consequence of false and misleading claims about our Institutional Special Need Program, forcing us to take action to protect the relationship of the doctor-patient who is crucial to offering high quality care,” said UnitedHealthcare’s representative. “The Guardian refused to relate to the truth and chose instead of printing his predetermined narrative.”

A representative of The Guardian fired on the Demand of Unitedheathcare, saying in the post with the reports of May 21 and that he intends to defend in court.

“ The Guardian is maintained with his independent and deep reports, which is based on thousands of corporate and patient records, publicly filed demands, statements filed with federal and state agencies and interviews with more than 20 current and old employees of the Unitedhealth, as well as statements and information provided by the same health for several weeks, ” said the representative.

“It is outrageous that, in response to reports on the practice of secret paying nursing homes to reduce hospitalizations for vulnerable patients, Unitedhealth is resorting to miscarriage tactics and intimidation through courts.”

In the story, The Guardian stated that internal emails revealed that Unitedhealth supervisors gave their “budgets” teams showing the amount of hospital admissions they had “left” to use them in patients with nursing homes.

The departure also reported that filtered emails showed that the company also controlled grandparents’ houses that had a smaller number of patients with “non -resuscitation” (or DNR) and that they “do not feel” in their files.

“The article used a screenshot that is strongly cut from an internal united email to the well -known and false accusation of Unitedhealth to coincide nursing home residents to dignify” do not rescue “papers as” cost cutting tactics … Even when patients had clearly expressed the desire that all available treatments were used to keep them, “, claimed the demand.

“The Guardian knew that these allegations were false, but he published them anyway, trying to blatantly take advantage of the tragic and shocking murder of the then CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson,” said the demand.

Thompson was killed on a Manhattan sidewalk on December 4 last year.

The accused killer Luigi Mangione, 27, has been arrested and has since been guilty of state and federal allegations.

The Unitedhealthcare boarding has been in the hot seat in recent weeks.

The Department of Justice revealed in May investigating a Unitedhealthcare for Frau Medicare.

As a result, the insurance company shares have grown almost 26%.