RIVERSIDE, Calif., March 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a
lawsuit filed in the federal District Court in the Northern
District of California in
San Jose, the experience of one
patient, Jonathan Davidson, puts a
spotlight on the large companies Hewlett Packard Enterprise and
United HealthCare seeking to manipulate healthcare payment systems
by cutting off a patient's life-saving care, as alleged in the
lawsuit in which Mr. Davidson's Jonathan Davidson Law Firm is
representing him. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP) plans a merger
this week with another giant computer services company, Computer
Sciences Corporation, which has repeatedly been charged with
systematically engaging in false or fraudulent practices in its
business with Medicaid, the British National Health Service and
others. In the merger, 120,000 or so HP employees are set to be
"spun off" into a newly created HP-CSC merger company called "DXC
Technology," with their prior HP sponsored health plan replaced by
a "private exchange model" adopted for its "lower cost structure"
for HP.
According to Jonathan Davidson,
his case exemplifies the abuses that victimize millions of ill
patients, including employees and others with company or group
medical coverage, and also the public and taxpayers through
inflated medical and health insurance costs.
According to Davidson's lawsuit, payment for the care and life
support prescribed for him by his doctors was assured by HP and
United HealthCare. But payments from Jonathan's care were cut off
on January 19 by Hewlett Packard's
medical benefits "administrator," United HealthCare (UHC), which is
said to be the largest health insurance company in the United States. UHC in January generated a
falsified medical record in an attempt to stop payment for
Jonathan's care, which has been paid for through benefit
arrangements with HP, his wife's employer. HP tried to cover the
falsified medical information from UHC by claiming that the payment
cutoff was merely sent "in error" and that "patient care management
sent the standard computer generated letter without reviewing your
case."
According to the federal lawsuit, from the diagnoses and orders
of the physicians who have attended to his daily care, United
HealthCare knows that Jonathan
Davidson will die if he does not have the life support and
skilled care that his doctors have prescribed for his disabling
neurodegenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
In defiance of Jonathan's attending physicians, UHC falsely claimed
in its January 19 letter that the
medical services prescribed for him "do not require special skills
or training" or "trained medical personnel."
HP is again trying to cut off promised payment for Jonathan's
life-saving medical care by transferring his wife on March 31 to the new merger company, DXC, that HP
has created with CSC to buck up their IT and computing services
businesses, which are targeted heavily on healthcare and
government. The family is fighting to save Jonathan's
life. They are taking his story to the media before HP,
Computer Sciences Corporation and United HealthCare cut off the
skilled medical care that keeps him alive.
Jonathan Davidson filed his
amended federal complaint against HP and UHC in the federal
District Court for the Northern District of California, in San
Jose, on March 13, 2017.
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