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Coverage Denied - Miranda Yaver

Coverage Denied

How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States

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Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009649810 (ISBN)
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Tens of millions of medical claims are denied every year, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to their scale or impact on patients' health and financial security. Coverage Denied combines compelling patient and physician narratives with original survey data to show how denials deepen health and economic inequality.
In the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, everyday Americans took to social media to share stories of the challenges they'd faced trying to navigate the American health insurance system. Why did this event strike such a nerve with the American public? For a topic as central to the lives of Americans as health care, there is no book that examines the impact of coverage denial, whereby health insurers decide whether to cover health services that appear to be within the scope of a plan's benefits – not until now. In Coverage Denied, health policy professor Miranda Yaver offers a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities along income, education, and racial lines. Combining rich interview material with original survey data, Yaver draws critical attention to the tens of millions of medical claims denied by health insurers every year, shining a necessary light on our inequitable health care system.

Miranda Yaver is an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh. She was the 2025 Author-in-Residence at the Roosevelt Institute. Her research has been published in several journals, including American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. Her op-eds and other health care commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog, STATNews, and The Hill.

Preface; 1. The political origins of coverage denials; 2. Causes and types of coverage denials; 3. Whose coverage is denied?; 4. Prescriptions are a headache; 5. Coverage denials and cost shifting to patients; 6. Navigating red tape in modern medicine; 7. Who wins and loses appeals; 8. The special difficulties of mental health; 9. A path forward; Appendices; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.4.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 235 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft
ISBN-13 9781009649810 / 9781009649810
Zustand Neuware
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