Reports suggest UnitedHealth gave BONUSES to nursing homes for sending fewer people to the hospital, even if they were sick.

Senator Ron Wyden and I are pressing for answers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are launching an investigation into UnitedHealth Group related to allegations that the company secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to cut hospital transfers of sick residents.

US Senators Wyden, Warren launch probe into UnitedHealth's nursing home practices

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are launching an investigation into UnitedHealth Group related to allegations that the company secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to cut hospital transfers of sick residents.

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Incentivizing a poor outcome isn't a good look, but these folks are insurers before they are human beings.

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