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OptumStone's Throw

Stone’s Throw: A Bold New Step in the Sick Care Showdown 

February 27, 2025 Adam Stone

This is the 19th installment in an investigative column series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate medical care. By Adam Stone  It took just 809 days and approximately a gazillion reported words, but an elected

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A ‘Mess’: Inside the Fallout of Optum’s Local Lab Deal with Quest

December 30, 2024 Adam Stone Health care,  Optum

In Aftermath of CEO Murder, Let’s Condemn Violence and Seek Solutions This is the 18th installment in an investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate medical care. By Adam Stone It’s been exactly two

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Examiner’s Optum Reporting Cited in Landmark Complaint

October 14, 2024 Adam Stone Healthcare,  Optum

This is the 17th installment in an investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate medical care. Class Action Status Sought Against UnitedHealth; Allegations Include Insider Trading, Fraud, and Monopolistic Practices By Adam Stone “Just

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SpiritualStone's Throw

A Pleasantville Prognosticator Predicted My Future; His Forecast Came True

May 20, 2024 Adam Stone

By Adam Stone Some of you might remember a column I prepared in early February about a Pleasantville-based astrologer, Colin McPhillamy, who predicted that I’d enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime creative experience on Apr. 20 of this year. I was sure to

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Potential Progress at Optum Tri-State Complicated by Corporate Care Crisis

May 13, 2024 Adam Stone

‘IT’S BONUSES FOR BODIES’ This is the 16th installment in an investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate medical care. By Adam Stone Let me start off by saying I read the letter from

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OptumStone's Throw

National Effort Brewing to Restore Doctor-Led Practice of Medicine

April 1, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 15th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate healthcare. By Adam Stone Anyone who has been following my now roughly 16-month-old series on CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth knows that while

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SpiritualStone's Throw

Spiritual Healing: A Conversation with ‘America’s Top Psychic Medium’

March 25, 2024 Adam Stone

This column is part of a series exploring topics that provide new insights into the boundaries of established science.  By Adam Stone Anyone who might already be familiar with Matt Fraser’s origin story knows he often discusses how he was

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Whistleblower Releases Audio, Files Complaint: Cites Medical Billing Plot at Optum

March 18, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 14th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum/UnitedHealth and broader concerns about corporate healthcare. FLEECING THE FEDS Local Unionizing Effort Intensifies, Yorktown Workers Poised to Vote Next Week  Plot on Tape Insider

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Justice Department Probing UnitedHealth/Optum Over Antitrust Concerns; Local Layoffs Enacted, More Forecast

February 26, 2024 Adam Stone

This is the 13th installment in an ongoing investigative series, launched in December 2022, about CareMount/Optum, broader local healthcare issues and corporate medicine. By Adam Stone Although I’ve done a ton of reporting over the past 14 months about Optum,

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Starry Dreams: From London to Pleasantville, Worldly Man’s Journey from Acting to Astrology

February 5, 2024 Adam Stone

This column marks the seventh installment in a series exploring topics that provide new insights into the boundaries of established science. By Adam Stone Colin McPhillamy was a little boy growing up in England, just four years old, when he

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