UNH is an insurance company who is profit motivated above all else.
paywalled source:
wsj.com
exec summary: Added diagnoses to patients’ records for conditions that no doctor treated, which triggered an extra $8.7 billion in federal payments. Untreated diagnoses from in-home visits by nurses cost an avg of $2,735 in additional federal payments per visit.
If the government wanted to eliminate fraud, hiring more inspectors general and attorneys to prosecute, and increased the size of the court system for more throughput, would be the best answer, instead of cutting basic services. .