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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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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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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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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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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