Code Wack - Designed to Fail: How Insurance Denials Really Work

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of insurance denials and the challenges faced by patients in accessing care.

This time on CodeWACK! Today, we’re talking about insurance denials, hidden incentives… and why getting care can feel like navigating a system designed to stop you. Our guest is Bob Coleman, a retired healthcare professional who spent more than 40 years serving veterans through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs—as a clinical pharmacist, medical informaticist, and researcher. His latest ebook is called "Hostile Takeover: How Wall Street and Congress Hijacked American Healthcare and How We Can Take it Back." This is the first of a two-part series. Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more! And please keep Code WACK! on the air with a tax-deductible donation at heal-ca.org/donate.

People in this episode

Guest: Bob Coleman

Topics covered

• insurance denials
• healthcare
• veterans
• medical informatics

Keywords

• healthcare system
• veterans affairs
• ebook
• Hostile Takeover

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Hostile Takeover

Books & works: Code Wack -, Hostile Takeover: How Wall Street and Congress, the Transcript and Show Notes

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