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@haidut This is an article about Sleep Apnea, BUT interesting reveals about data. A few paragraphs highlighting the problem:
“In an email, a Blue Cross Blue Shield spokesperson said that it’s standard practice for insurers to monitor sleep apnea patients and deny payment if they aren’t using the machine. And privacy experts said that sharing the data with insurance companies is allowed under federal privacy laws. A ResMed representative said once patients have given consent, it may share the data it gathers, which is encrypted, with the patients’ doctors, insurers, and supply companies.”
“Luke Petty, the operations manager for Medigy, said a lot of CPAP users direct their ire at companies like his. The complaints online number in the thousands. But insurance companies set the prices and make the rules, he said, and suppliers follow them so they can get paid.
“Every year it’s a new hurdle, a new trick, a new game for the patients,” Petty said.”
You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true
“In an email, a Blue Cross Blue Shield spokesperson said that it’s standard practice for insurers to monitor sleep apnea patients and deny payment if they aren’t using the machine. And privacy experts said that sharing the data with insurance companies is allowed under federal privacy laws. A ResMed representative said once patients have given consent, it may share the data it gathers, which is encrypted, with the patients’ doctors, insurers, and supply companies.”
“Luke Petty, the operations manager for Medigy, said a lot of CPAP users direct their ire at companies like his. The complaints online number in the thousands. But insurance companies set the prices and make the rules, he said, and suppliers follow them so they can get paid.
“Every year it’s a new hurdle, a new trick, a new game for the patients,” Petty said.”
You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true