Deadly Consent: A Palm Shores Mystery

9781424168248

1424168244

A Deadly Consent tells the story of a health maintenance organization through the eyes of Annie Corbin, a social worker. It is the story of modern-day Judases taking trusting patients down a one-way road to destruction and death. Faced with the sudden death of her father, Annie finds herself questioning her faith in herself, the social work profession and, above all else, a medical system that is supposed to heal and not harm. Massive health organizations mean huge profits for the health insurance industry; enormous profits. That fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Florida to Washington and to the Orient. It ensnares patients, physicians, social workers, nurses and hospitals in a deceptive web of precertification entanglement, delays and deadly denials in patient treatment. A deceptive game played by HMOs of move and countermove. What is the price of insurance? This engrossing insider’s tour of managed health care’s grandest schemes and most dangerous men has a jolting answer.