Healthcare DIVE April 16, 2020
Samantha Liss

After largely exiting the Affordable Care Act exchanges a few years ago amid big profit losses, UnitedHealthcare is weighing whether to expand to new regions for 2021 coverage.

The admission comes as the nation’s largest private health insurer acknowledges more members are struggling to pay their monthly commercial health insurance premiums as American workers are laid off or forced to take furloughs in the economic fallout of the novel coronavirus.

“What you can count on is we’ll make no snap reactions to this situation in terms of making strategic decisions about going into markets. But we have given this considerable thought leading up to this crisis and through it all,” David Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said during a Wednesday...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Govt Agencies, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange
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