Becker's Healthcare November 5, 2019
UnitedHealth Group plans to extend its housing program for homeless Medicaid recipients, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
The expansion comes after the insurer tested the housing program in Phoenix, Milwaukee and Las Vegas. Thirty more markets will be added to the program, called MyConnections, by early 2020, Jeffrey Brenner, MD, senior vice president for clinical redesign at UnitedHealth, told the publication.
At its core, the program aims to lower healthcare spending for Medicaid recipients who frequently use emergency services because they don’t have a place to live. Dr. Brenner shared the story of one Phoenix patient named Steve, who was homeless before UnitedHealth provided him an apartment. In the year before he got housing, Steve visited the emergency room 81 times...
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