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MuchAd3273 t1_jdg8kjq wrote

Frankly, as a UPMC For Life Complete Care member, the only people to lose will be us insurance members. The government is poking the bear. What would they like us to do If they kick UPMC out of Medicare?

Go to Death Trap General on the Northside and try and find new doctors and get new Prior Auths for all of our medications while Highmark continues to be unable to market a profitable product?

Highmark is out of Network and we don't want to go there anyways.

We like UPMC.

If I needed surgery, I would feel completely comfortable having Luketich perform it.

It really seems as though the two lovebird surgeons took revenge for him exposing their tryst.

What I don't understand is that Pennsylvania is a two party consent state. How are they not being prosecuted for recording Luketich's private conversations with his doctor and why would the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix hire both of them with the scandal and illegal act hanging over their heads?

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goofypugs t1_jdgj24a wrote

you’re seriously defending an organization that treats its workers like shit and treats you like a product that needs to be quantified and marketed to??

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AndyHenry t1_jdgksyr wrote

Didn’t you hear him? The hospital whose board of directors is still run by actual MDs is death trap general.

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Aggravating_Foot_528 OP t1_jdgyhwe wrote

they can be kicked out of medicare AND medicaid. That's probably at least 50% of their payers. Will it happen? No. but did they poke the bear by refusing to sign this? yes.

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Der_Missionar t1_jdhxyoa wrote

The dude who's actions resulted in 2 people literally losing limbs?

Your defending.... this?

You deserve every down vote you're getting.

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HonBurgher t1_jdijrbp wrote

The tape of Dr. Luketich's conversation about suboxone is still in litigation over whether it was illegal or not and whether there could be an "expectation of privacy" in the room where the talk happened, but it was ultimately irrelevant to the question of whether he violated the law/regulations by billing the government for surgeries when he was shuttling among them. He even tried to use the tape to keep the whistleblower from getting a share of the settlement, but was denied by a judge who said it had nothing to do with the case that settled.

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xofireflyox t1_jdi3asb wrote

That’s on UPMC for not following government guidelines for Medicare and Medicaid and committing literal healthcare fraud. Unfortunately yes the patients suffer the most but that’s due to UPMC’s selfishness and greed, not the OIG doing their job.

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Advanced_Fun_1851 t1_jdicxfw wrote

Look into some of the shadiness and investigations into the clinic who hired them

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