STAT+: UnitedHealthcare’s lactation billing feud, and fake strokes
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This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc.&#x A0;Sign up here. I live in northwest Indiana, and it appears the Chicago Bears are going to put the team’s new stadium here, well outside the actual city of Chicago with almost no public transit and financed completely by Indiana taxpayers. The Bears are successfully pissing off just about everyone — no small feat. Send all Bears thoughts and health care tips my way!&#x A0;bob.herman@statnews.com. The breastfeeding billing battle UnitedHealthcare is cutting back on paying for lactation counseling, and the clinicians who provide those services are up in arms, another example of the deepening rifts between providers and insurers.Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…