UnitedHealthcare's New & Enhanced Digital Health Resources Help Empower People to More Effectively Use Their Benefits & Curb ...
October 31 2018 - 09:30AM
Business Wire
- Health Plan Manager now enables
smaller-sized employers to access comprehensive analyses of
aggregate employee health data, providing a roadmap to create
targeted interventions to help improve employee health and reduce
costs
- Digital Onboarding enhancements
personalize open enrollment and help employers more effectively
administer health benefits for their employees
- PreCheck MyScript helps people save
money at the pharmacy counter, enabling more physicians and
patients to access real-time prescription drug costs and
alternatives
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company,
launched new and enhanced digital health resources to help
employers access and understand health care data, save on premiums
and encourage employees to more effectively use their health
benefits.
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Technology continues to reshape health
care, as people turn to telemedicine, wearables and other digital
health resources that help encourage well-being and enable people
to make more informed health care choices (Source:
UnitedHealthcare).
The enhancements are in time for this year’s open-enrollment
period for employers and employees, which for most companies occurs
during the fall for plans starting Jan. 1, 2019. The new and
enhanced resources include:
- Health Plan Manager: This
interactive tool enables employers to analyze and understand health
data, providing an analytics-driven roadmap to help improve health
outcomes, mitigate expenses, and empower employees to take charge
of their health.The online resource – now available to employers
with self-funded health plans with as few as 100 enrolled employees
– helps employers implement clinical management and
employee-engagement programs based on comprehensive analytics
applied to various data sources, including aggregate medical and
prescription claims, demographics, and clinical and well-being
information.For instance, the platform enabled a self-funded
national retailer to analyze its out-of-network claims for back
surgeries, isolating the area and factors contributing most to
these costs, and then launching an educational campaign that
achieved estimated savings of nearly $1 million*.
- Digital Onboarding: Available to
employers with 101 to 3,000 employees at no additional cost,
Digital Onboarding is an online process that makes plan enrollment
more personalized, and enables people to select relevant clinical,
wellness or financial programs such as behavioral health, weight
loss, pregnancy support and others. Recent and upcoming
enhancements include year-round enrollment (for new hires or for
qualifying life events), expanded support for third-party specialty
products, and information about prescription drug coverage.
- PreCheck MyScript: This
technology enables doctors and patients to view precise medication
costs in real time and obtain prior authorization before leaving
the exam room due to its direct integration into a physician’s
existing Electronic Medical Record platform. This may help
encourage the selection of lower-cost drug alternatives, such as
generics, or by changing the pharmacy selected to fill the
prescription. Since its launch in 2017, PreCheck MyScript has
provided doctors with preauthorization capabilities and formulary
information more than 8 million times, resulting in a change to a
lower-cost drug more than 20 percent of the time when a
lower-priced clinically equivalent alternative is offered.PreCheck
MyScript will be available to nearly 20,000 more care providers
this fall. Nearly 115,000 prescribing physicians have already used
PreCheck MyScript through various electronic medical record (EMR)
platforms. By the end of 2019, the app is expected to reach 80
percent of UnitedHealthcare network physicians who prescribe
electronically.
- Personalized Claims Videos:
Nationwide, people who are enrolled in UnitedHealthcare individual
and employer-sponsored plans can view personalized claims videos to
help them better understand their benefits and what they owe
following a covered medical service. The brief, personalized claims
videos provide a step-by-step breakdown that shows exactly how each
claim was processed, what their plan covered and how much is owed.
Since launching earlier this year, the program has generated strong
user-satisfaction ratings and has reduced the need for follow-up
calls by 30 percent.
These types of online resources are important for employers and
employees. According to a recent UnitedHealthcare survey, 20
percent of Americans with health benefits say they are unprepared
for health care open enrollment; and low health literacy costs the
U.S. health care system upwards of $238 billion per year1.
“Employers and employees want a more simplified and personalized
health care experience, starting from plan enrollment and
continuing throughout the person’s journey toward better health,”
said Rebecca Madsen, UnitedHealthcare chief consumer officer.
“UnitedHealthcare invests more than $3 billion annually in data,
technology and innovation to help our customers and plan
participants better understand and make the most of their health
benefits, improve their health and well-being, and reduce their
health care costs.”
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.
*Cost-savings results are averaged for illustrative purposes,
and health outcomes are not guaranteed.1U.S. Department of
Education National Assessment of Adult Literacy
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