Top plastic surgeon accuses UnitedHealthcare of sending 'threats' over bombshell claims she made after CEO's assassination

A starring integrative surgeon has accused UnitedHealthcare of sending her 'threats' aft she made bombshell claims astir the security giant.

Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a board-certified integrative surgeon successful Austin, Texas, was 1 of galore doctors who condemned UnitedHealthcare's practices pursuing the December assassination of CEO Brian Thompson.

She had claimed successful a video posted to TikTok last period that she was successful the mediate of performing reconstructive country connected a diligent who survived bosom cancer erstwhile she received a telephone from the security company. 

The security typical allegedly said helium needed accusation astir the patient's diagnosis to find 'if her inpatient enactment should beryllium justified.' 

'I had to scrub retired mid-surgery to telephone United, lone to find that the idiosyncratic connected the enactment didn't adjacent person entree to the patient's afloat aesculapian information, contempt the process being pre-approved,' Potter said successful the video.

She aboriginal clarified successful a follow-up station that determination was a 2nd surgeon successful the operating country with her, who watched implicit the diligent arsenic she took the telephone call.

But UnitedHealth Group Inc, the genitor institution of UnitedHealthcare, has since hired the almighty Clarke Locke instrumentality firm, which demanded Potter retract her societal media posts and apologize, she said.

In a video posted just 3 days aft Potter made the claims, she said she had received a telephone from the security elephantine astir her post.

She said a typical for the institution near her a message, and she tried to telephone back, but she was near connected clasp and was ne'er capable to scope the close person.

Weeks later, Potter said she received a request missive from Clarke Locke - which markets itself arsenic 'the starring instrumentality steadfast successful the United States' and antecedently represented Dominion Voting Systems successful obtaining a astir $800million colony from Fox News.

In the letter, which Potter posted successful its entirety, the instrumentality steadfast accused the doc of making an mistake successful her patient's orders and of allowing 'threatening, harassing and intimidating comments' connected her societal media pages that were directed astatine UHC.

The steadfast besides claimed the typical from UnitedHealthcare was going to permission a connection erstwhile they recovered retired she was successful surgery.

'Your claims are false. You intelligibly cognize they are false. You falsely laid the blasted for your office's mistake connected UnitedHealthcare publicly, unleashing a firestorm of unsafe misinformation,' the missive read.

It went connected to request Potter 'correct the record' by deleting her posts, issuing a nationalist apology to UHC, interaction immoderate media outlets that covered her posts to retract her claims and condemn 'the threats of unit aimed astatine our lawsuit resulting from your posts.' 

In a video connected Monday, Potter acknowledged she recovered the request missive 'a spot intimidating,' but vowed 'I'm not going to beryllium silenced by threats erstwhile it comes to speaking retired for my patients.'

She past went connected to lament the security company's handling of her patient's case, saying it was 'even worse' than the missive she received.

'Staying overnight aft large country isn't optional - it's medically necessary,' Potter argued. 'But UnitedHealthcare decided they cognize amended than the doctors caring for the patient.'

'When they called maine portion I was operating, I knew that if I didn't measurement retired and respond immediately, they mightiness contradict her enactment - leaving her with a monolithic bill,' she continued, defending her actions. 'So, with different surgeon successful the OR, I scrubbed retired and called them back. 

'But aft each that? They denied her enactment anyway,' she claimed.

'And alternatively of fixing their breached system, they sent maine a ineligible menace for speaking out.' 

The doc past vowed to proceed to combat and talk retired against the security giant.

'If I don't talk up, I suffer my integrity, my dependable and the accidental to marque a difference,' she said.

'And portion it's intimidating to person a missive similar this from a institution arsenic almighty arsenic UnitedHealthcare, I cognize wherever I stand.

'Let maine beryllium clear: I basal by everything I said. I told the truth. I was honorable astir what's happening successful our healthcare system. And I volition not beryllium silenced by ineligible threats erstwhile it comes to advocating for my patients and my quality to attraction for them.'

In the station sharing the letter, Potter besides wrote: 'My words were existent and this concern was absurd.'

She was adamant successful her connection that the patient's overnight enactment was indispensable for 'medical reasons' and was 'not an mistake connected my part.' 

'The gaslighting and harassment successful the missive which United sent maine has not worked to bash thing different than fortify my resolve,' she said.

'I volition proceed to talk honestly, intelligibly and plainly astir the authorities of healthcare successful the United States of America.'

DailyMail.com has reached retired to UnitedHealth Group for comment.