UnitedHealth (UNH) relied on a variety of tactics, including money, peer pressure, and guilt, to incentivize doctors at one of its practices to pile diagnoses onto Medicare Advantage patients, an investigation by STAT has found, Tara Bannow, Bob Herman, Casey Ross, and Lizzy Lawrence report.
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