{"id":21246,"date":"2023-05-15T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21246"},"modified":"2023-05-15T07:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T11:52:30","slug":"stunning-change-to-uniteds-colonoscopy-coverage-roils-physicians-and-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21246","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stunning\u2019 change to United\u2019s colonoscopy coverage roils physicians and patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Angus Chen for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial and complicated process known as prior authorization, their emotions cycled rapidly between fear, shock, and outrage.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/05\/15\/united-colonoscopy-insurance-cost\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/05\/15\/united-colonoscopy-insurance-cost\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"26\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Angus Chen for STAT) When gastroenterologists learned in March that UnitedHealthcare plans to barricade many colonoscopies behind a controversial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[170,442,98],"class_list":["post-21246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-medical-technology","tag-colonoscopy","tag-prior-authorization","tag-unitedhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21247,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21246\/revisions\/21247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}