Anthem Blue Cross Won't Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Surgery (asahq.org)

looks like server has been hugged.

archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241126202046/https://www.asahq...

Health Insurance companies will continue to push the limits on how much they don't need to cover until there is a regulation change.

Guess what the CEO of Anthem's last job was.

I would guess that doctors might find problematic for a patient to regain conciseness mid operation for a patient who can't afford full anesthesia.

Anthem's own press release:

https://providernews.anthem.com/connecticut/articles/anesthe...

They don't say what the "established number of minutes" are. Presumably there's a table somewhere. I darkly suspect it's based on the average time -- in which case half of the procedures will go over.

Are the other providers also paid by the minute? I wonder if there's a surgeon going, "Well, that was easy. Let's just hang out here for a few minutes before closing up."