STAT+: How UnitedHealth turned a questionable artery-screening program into a gold mine
STAT
AUGUST 7, 2024
The nation’s largest health care company pressed thousands of its clinicians to use a thinly tested medical device to screen people for artery disease, dramatically boosting payments from the federal government for years even though many of the patients were not sick, a STAT investigation found. The result was a torrent of sometimes questionable diagnoses of peripheral artery disease.
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