Business Partnerships between Fitbit and Health Insurance Companies

insurance companies are developing new ways to deny health coverage to customers who have pre-existing medical conditions the company Qualcomm Life has partnered with insurance companies to allow them to monitor customers activity via wearable fitness devices such as Fitbit with insurance companies aiming to monitor customers data to possibly deny coverage to unhealthy individual while boosting their insurance rates for others insurance companies like United

Healthcare now offer participants nearly $1,500 in deductible each year depending on how active they are while using the tracking devices and although wellness programs like this help motivate participants to become more active the insurance industry could have larger aims for this technology the corporate media has failed to report on this issue with only two major newspapers covering the story in the last three years

in 2015 the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece raising concerns about how insurance companies might use Fitbit monitors and in 2016 an article in The Wall Street Journal described UnitedHealth wellness program but it did not address the possibility that other less active injuries might be forced to pay higher rates the corporate media has failed to inform us on the dangers of sharing personal information with health

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