Actor and comedian Edi Patterson, known for her standout roles in The Righteous Gemstones and Vice Principals, took to Instagram last night to share news about her mother’s recent health crisis, along with the frustrating and infuriating roadblocks they’ve faced with her insurance “provider”, United Healthcare.
Earlier this month, Patterson’s mother became seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. When it came time for her to transition to a rehabilitation facility to continue her recovery, the family received devastating news: United Healthcare denied authorization for the rehab stay.
The company then also refused a peer-to-peer review with a doctor at Cedars-Sinai—a standard process that often helps resolve such cases.
In a series of Instagram stories, Patterson detailed the experience and voiced her outrage over the insurance giant’s decision. United kept having them removed. She attempted to repost the story multiple times, and as of last night, a final post appears to remain live on her feed.
Patterson’s story is one of many that spotlight the growing concern over insurance companies denying essential care. Damn. Shame on United Healthcare… if they can even call themselves that.
Find screenshots of her original, now-removed stories after the jump.
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My cousin’s wife, who is in her young 30s, had a serious stroke and will require months of physical therapy, speech therapy, therapy for the trauma of her illness, etc. Her insurance denied her multiple doctors’ requests that she be able to recover at a rehabilitation facility where she could receive all of those services in one place. Now she will have to do all of that at her rural home, or drive into the city to receive services.
It’s disgusting what they did to her, and it’s disgusting what they’re doing to cut the services for sooo many other patients in need.