Inside UnitedHealthcare’s effort to deny coverage to chronically ill patient

Christopher McNaughton has been in a years-long battle with UnitedHealthcare over his care. Photo by Nate Smallwood. This story was originally published by ProPublica In May 2021, a nurse at UnitedHealthcare called a colleague to share some welcome news about a problem the two had been grappling with for weeks. United provided the health insurance plan for students at Penn State…