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personKristen Bell, a nurse practitioner who worked for UnitedHealth.
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If the quanta flow showed decreased blood flow, Kristen was supposed to conclude that the patient had peripheral artery disease. But she says she was uncomfortable making such a definitive diagnosis just based on the device, especially since elderly people often have decreased blood flow.
Like peripheral artery disease. It's a serious condition where blood vessels get narrower, and in some cases, it can lead to amputations. A House Calls training manual reviewed by the investigations team advised nurse practitioners like Kristen to diagnose peripheral artery disease based on results from a device called the Quantiflow.
According to the data seen by the journal team, UnitedHealth Medicare Advantage members were about 15 times as likely to have a diagnosis of diabetic cataracts compared to the average patient in traditional Medicare. It was this unusual condition that Kristen, the nurse practitioner with House Calls, says she was encouraged to put down on patient charts.
UnitedHealth told us that their nurse practitioners are not, quote, Chris looked at a three-year period where Medicare Advantage insurers sent out nurse practitioners like Kristen to run tests and add diagnoses to patient records, including diagnoses of the kinds of conditions that trigger those extra payments. The extra payments added up to about $15 billion during that time.
After working at the House Calls program for about a year, Kristen told us that she eventually began doing the tests she was asked to do. And after that, she got a raise.
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