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Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise
The risk of having your health insurance claim denied is roughly 10 times what it was a decade ago — but consumers can’t know which companies are the stingiest.
But the researchers found that numerous insurers nix 30% or more, including Meridian Health Plan of Michigan, United Healthcare of Arizona, and Optimum Choice in Virginia. An appeal means coaxing your doctor and staff to spend hours filling out forms and making repeated phone calls to joust with an insurance company employee. State insurance commissioners collect denial data, but with the exception of Connecticut and Vermont, they don’t disclose that information, a ProPublica investigation found.
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