Whoop De Doo 🤦🏻‍♂️

So, Cigna hit pause on its downcoding stunt and the headlines made it sound like a victory. For the record they did not simply not wake up and grow a conscience. All this giant corporation did was simply pull a fire alarm that they themselves installed.

Doctors spent months begging Cigna to stop gutting legitimate claims. Patients felt the shock first because every rejected claim lands on a kitchen table long before it lands in a courtroom.

But it was organized pressure that ultimately forced the company to stand down (albeit temporarily) because The California Medical Association showed what happens when people with power decide to use it. (Hint hint)

Is this pause a good thing? Yes, But the damage already landed on real people who needed care in the moment.

The health insurance industry does this over and over. Create chaos. Blame paperwork. Blame coding. Blame anything except the truth that these policies exist to save the company money.

None of us live outside this mess. Even the insiders tell me they get crushed by the same nonsense. This pause shows that pressure works. The next question asks who applies it and how often.

If this hits home, tell me where you have seen it happen. Add a comment or a rage repost and drop your story in the thread. One reply pushes this in front of more people who deal with the same mess.

Are you new here? My condolences and my thanks. Follow along and stay loud with the rest of us. More voices means more pressure on a system that counts on silence

SOURCE ➡️ https://www.cmadocs.org/newsroom/news/view/ArticleId/50993/Cigna-agrees-to-pause-controversial-downcoding-policy?utm_source=chatgpt.com