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- Company
to provide new health insurance options to Minnesota-based employers in
late 2018
- New Medicare
options from nation’s leading Medicare Advantage company anticipated
beginning Jan. 1, 2019
MINNETONKA, Minn. (June 28, 2018) – UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH)
company, will begin offering new employer-sponsored health insurance options in
Minnesota beginning late 2018, and intends to expand its Medicare Advantage
health insurance plan options Jan. 1, 2019, pending regulatory approvals. The
company already serves large, self-funded multistate employers in its home
state.
“UnitedHealthcare is privileged to serve people all over the
world, but Minnesota is our home, and we look forward to offering the right
products and top service to our neighbors,” said Philip Kaufman, CEO of
UnitedHealthcare of Minnesota.
UnitedHealthcare will offer a full portfolio of benefit products
to employers of all sizes. In addition to a broad suite of traditional medical
plans, the portfolio will include HSA plans, as well as plans that offer low
out-of-pocket costs for primary care, virtual visits and urgent care.
Minnesotans will have access to a variety of unique offerings such as:
- Consumer-centric
digital health resources: Plan
participants have access to Rally, a digital platform that engages and
empowers people to take a more active role in improving their overall
health and health care decisions.
- Award-winning
wellness programs: UnitedHealthcare Motion® – a
wearable device wellness program – encourages people to be active and
enables them to earn more than $1,000 per year for meeting certain daily
walking goals.
- Personalized
service: The Advocate4Me service approach
connects people, through their preferred communication channel, with an
Advocate who “owns” a plan participant’s request until it’s resolved.
To support its new offerings in Minnesota, UnitedHealthcare has
established relationships with the area’s leading physicians and hospitals to
build a value-based, high-performing network of care providers to serve people
enrolled in its health plans. Physicians will have access to technology and
data, as well as financial rewards for delivering high-quality, cost-effective
care.
UnitedHealthcare also intends to offer Individual Medicare
Advantage plans to Minnesotans, pending regulatory approvals. These plans will
complement the company’s existing Medicare Advantage plans for Minnesota
retirees who receive health insurance through their former employers, Medicare
Supplement plans and Medicare Prescription Drug plans.
UnitedHealthcare and its parent company UnitedHealth Group were
founded in Minnesota and are headquartered in the state. UnitedHealth Group
employs approximately 18,000 Minnesotans. In 2017 alone, UnitedHealth Group and
its employees invested more than $21 million in charitable giving and over
150,000 volunteer hours in Minnesota.
About
UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare
is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the health
system work better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers,
and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than
1.2 million physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health benefits and
delivers care to people through owned and operated health care facilities in
South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more information, visit
UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or
follow @UHC on Twitter.
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