A breast cancer surgeon had to “scrub out mid-surgery” to call a UnitedHealthcare representative because the insurance giant questioned whether the procedure she was in the middle of performing was really necessary.

Dr. Elisabeth Potter posted her story to Instagram this week, and the post has gotten more than 221,000 likes.

Still wearing her scrub cap, Dr. Potter began her video saying, “It’s 2025, and navigating insurance has somehow just gotten worse.”

  • @Gammelfisch
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    122 months ago

    One cannot be a true medical doctor in the USA.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      This is one of the reasons I want to be a night shift emergency medicine physician. No one is calling me at 2 in the morning to argue with me running a code for insurance reasons.

      • @MutilationWave
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        52 months ago

        Yeah they’ll just deny it without talking to you and bankrupt your patient.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          There’s special kinds of short-term Medicaid for emergency room treatment and associated hospitalization. And they can’t deny a resuscitation as “not medically necessary”.

          • @NotMyOldRedditName
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            11 month ago

            And they can’t deny a resuscitation as “not medically necessary”.

            You have too much faith in their new AI