About three years ago, a UnitedHealth medical director for utilization management (we’ll call him KW) began to suspect that a popular spine surgeon was misrepresenting patient MRIs to make the case that they needed unnecessary spinal fusion surgery in lieu of a less invasive discectomy procedure. Specifically, KW, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, believed the surgeon…
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