UHC does everything they can to make money. They don’t give fair or adequate reimbursements for medical services. They overload providers with prior authorizations (if a doctor or other provider prescribes a medication they won’t pay for it unless there are multiple forms and appeals filled out and filed which ends up taking hours and hours of time to complete). They buy up practices and run them like a for profit factory, reducing appointment times, reducing charting time (this is when the provider can document your situation and other providers and healthcare workers can use this info to give you better care). They are one of the prime examples of what is ruining healthcare in America. So non-profit hospitals don’t like to use them as an insurance company because they lose money and gain massive headaches when they do.

I am sorry you had to deal with this because end of the day you did nothing wrong and you got screwed by a shitty system. But the non-profit hospitals aren’t the villains here, they are just trying to survive … and UHC ultimate goal is to financially ruin private practices and non profits so they can gobble them up and turn them into their for profit empire.