Multimillionaire investor Bill Ackman promised to cover the legal fees for a Texas doctor in a dispute with UnitedHealth Group Inc. about his statements that the company asked him to be an operation to justify the care of a patient.

Ackman, Executive Director of Pershing Square Capital Management, said Thursday X that he withdrew a previous critic from the insurer after United’s lawyers told him that the doctor’s statements he had amplified on social networks were false.

In a publication now eliminated in X, Ackman promoted a video earlier this week of the Texas Elisabeth Potter surgeon, who claimed that Unitedhealth called it an operation to question the stay during the night of a patient. UnitedHealth has played Potter’s account and said the insurance company would never ask a doctor to interrupt patient care to return a call.

With his publications, one of the most prominent investors in the world is intensifying a dispute between a doctor and the largest health insurer in the United States that develops on social networks. American insurers faced a hard online reaction after the death of December of United Executive Brian Thompson. Potter’s video went viral.

Ackman said in a post X on Thursday that he has no position in Unitedhealth, but that he cares “the cases in which insurers act inappropriately when denying coverage, so I became interested in this subject.” An Ackman representative did not respond to a request for comments on early Friday.

Social networks have become a powerful force against insurers. Last year, after a generalized protest on social networks, Insurance giant Elevance Health Inc. receded a policy to limit anesthesia coverage when surgery lasts a long time. The insurer cited “widespread erroneous information.”

‘Totally credible’

ACKMAN, in his first place on the dispute of UnitedHealth with Potter, asked the United States Stock Exchange and Securities Commission to investigate the company and suggested that the “insurer’s” profitability is exaggerated greatly due to her denial of medically necessary procedures “

In response, UnitedHealth reported concerns about Ackman’s post to the SEC.

The company has also hired the Dead Dead Clare Locke law firm to counteract what you see as inaccurate social media publications. Potter published a copy of a letter he received from the company.

ACKMAN said he asked the company, Clare Locke and the doctor to support his claims.

In a later position on Thursday night, Ackman said he had spoken with Potter and found his “totally credible” story. He promised to cover his legal expenses, but said he was still waiting for more information from the company to completely determine what happened.

Potter said in a telephone interview on Friday morning that there is documentation to support his account and “at the right time I will share that.” She has retained lawyers who have responded to the Letter of Unitedhealth, she said.

UnitedHealth did not comment on Ackman’s latest publications on Thursday night. The company has said that Potter invoiced the case incorrectly and that the patient was not money. UnitedHealth said the company approved coverage for attention, including a stay during the night.

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