UnitedHealthcare to Offer More Health Insurance Choices for Minnesotans
June 28 2018 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- 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
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
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare 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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