A team of STAT journalists spent the last two years diving deep into how UnitedHealthcare's parent company, UnitedHealth Group, operates and its impact on the health of Americans. In this video, our reporters distill what they've learned about the company and explain why STAT focused so singularly on it.
This year, in the ongoing series "Health Care's Colossus," STAT documented how UnitedHealth wielded its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. The year before, in the "Denied by AI" series, STAT exposed how UnitedHealth used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians' judgments and deny health care, highlighting the dangers of AI use in medicine.
STAT reporters Casey Ross, Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, and Lizzy Lawrence have reviewed thousands of pages of documents, pored over reams of data, and convinced dozens of clinicians to speak with them to reveal the untold costs of UnitedHealth's dominance.
LONG (30 minute) video but well worth watching
This year, in the ongoing series "Health Care's Colossus," STAT documented how UnitedHealth wielded its unrivaled physician empire to boost its profits and expand its influence. The year before, in the "Denied by AI" series, STAT exposed how UnitedHealth used an unregulated algorithm to override clinicians' judgments and deny health care, highlighting the dangers of AI use in medicine.
STAT reporters Casey Ross, Bob Herman, Tara Bannow, and Lizzy Lawrence have reviewed thousands of pages of documents, pored over reams of data, and convinced dozens of clinicians to speak with them to reveal the untold costs of UnitedHealth's dominance.
LONG (30 minute) video but well worth watching
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