Becker's Healthcare July 17, 2024
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is touting the company’s home healthcare visits for its Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
On a July 16 investor call, Mr. Witty said medical professionals made more than 2.5 million home health visits to UnitedHealthcare MA members in 2023.
“As a direct result, our clinicians identified 300,000 seniors with emergent health needs that may have otherwise gone undiagnosed,” Mr. Witty said. “They connected more than 500,000 seniors to essential resources to help them with unaddressed needs such as food insecurity, medication, affordability, transportation and financial support.”
The comments from the largest MA insurer come shortly after a July Wall Street Journal investigation found that between 2018 and 2021, insurers received $50 billion for diagnoses...
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