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  • Insurance Companies Use Shady Doctors to Deny Care, Investigation Finds

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    By Edward Lynn Mid-America Publishing In a New Orleans courtroom in April, federal appeals court judges questioned United Healthcare’s (UHC) denial of coverage for 15-year-old Emily Dwyer, whose anorexia was so severe that she had required residential treatment, for which she appeared wearing her 8 year old sister’s pants. But just 5 months later, doctors…