Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

[Blackjackdavey]

2. Kind of a ridiculous story

But what else can be expected of journalism these days.

Hospital diversion programs aren't secret or controversial in the general sense. Efforts to reduce inpatient hospitalizations is literally state policy in my world as there are many benefits to doing so and providing increased reimbursement rates or providing other kinds of financial incentive is obviously the only way for outpatient providers to do it since they need staff and equipment.

Therefore, was it secret, really? And if so, in what way, why? "No one" investigates harm to patients? Really? In what state, what context? What location doesn't have mandated reporting, vulnerable persons registries, investigations of harm? This is all relevant to understanding what this is about beyond finding things that happened, someone who doesn't know how things work speaking innuendo and the salacious "united healthcare."