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This is the seventh installment in a series about CareMount/Optum and broader local healthcare issues. By Adam Stone Just a couple weeks ago, as many of you know, I published a piece about the billing practices of CareMount/Optum, and how the company was being scrutinized by the

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Stone’s Throw Probe: Attorney General’s Office Scrutinizing CareMount/Optum’s Questionable Billing Practices

August 28, 2023 Adam Stone medical, Optum

Leaked Survey Reveals Deep Doctor Discontent; Medical Group Acknowledges ‘Chronic Illness’ This is the sixth installment in a series about CareMount/Optum and broader local healthcare issues. By Adam Stone In January, when in the thick of my past reporting about severe patient and doctor discontent with

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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION – Banned from Care: Stillbirth Mother Recounts ‘Traumatic’ Termination from Optum/CareMount

April 10, 2023 Adam Stone

This is the fifth installment in a series about Optum/CareMount and broader local healthcare issues. Local Woman Endures Harrowing Healthcare Experience, Fraught Medical Records Fiasco By Adam Stone It’s impossible to overstate the level of heartbreak and trauma Katonah’s

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CareMount Lobbying State on Medicare-related Interests

January 30, 2023 Adam Stone

Evolving Role of Private Industry Both Entices and Unsettles Seniors This column is part of a series on CareMount / Optum and wider local healthcare issues. Sometimes when you write a column – hopefully most of the time – you

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Examiner Probe Uncovers ‘Restrictive’ Employment Contract at Optum; Veteran CareMount Doctors Feel ‘Trapped’

January 15, 2023 Adam Stone

This piece is part of a series about Optum/CareMount and local healthcare. It was Dec. 4, 2020, and 264 CareMount shareholders — the healthcare group’s doctors — awoke that morning to a potentially exciting, enriching, and career-altering day they hoped

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Optum Problems Contribute to Broader ER Surge at NWH

December 29, 2022 Adam Stone Mount Kisco

Issue Captures Attention of Local Lawmaker This column is the second installment of a multi-part series about concerns at Optum. Since publishing an in-depth column earlier this month on the vexing issues at Optum Tri-State medical group – the former CareMount/former MKMG

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Optum: ‘Special Place’ Beset by Maddening Phone Woes, Alleged Doctor Shortages

December 10, 2022 Adam Stone Mount Kisco

While my favorite type of written-word journalism to read is often the straightforward, balanced news report, the format and its rightful traditions sometimes put the squeeze on important truth-telling. In late July, a respected member of the community, Bedford Corners

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