UnitedHealthcare Enhances Integration of Medical and Specialty Benefits, Helping Improve Health Outcomes and Affordability - Seite 2

UnitedHealthcare’s integrated approach enables new insights to get a better picture of employees’ health, facilitating clinical interventions, encouraging access to care and supporting them along their journeys toward a healthier lifestyle. For instance, to help support people with diabetes and periodontal disease, the integrated approach cross-checks dental and medical health claim data to determine if members have missed recommended periodontal treatments or cleanings. UnitedHealthcare then follows up with the member with diabetes to help schedule dental treatments or cleanings, which have been shown to reduce inflammation and improve diabetes management.³

Similar proactive interventions may be possible for employers that combine medical benefits with accident, disability, critical illness, hearing and vision plans. The value of integration extends beyond specialty benefits too, including applications related to prescription medications and behavioral health. In fact, employers may realize an average savings of $16 to $25 per member per month by adopting an integrated approach to medical and pharmacy, while lowering emergency room costs by 11% and inpatient medical costs by 15%.⁴

*Potential savings include the impact from an integrated approach and uBundle, which applies only to first-year medical premiums for employers with 51-100 employees; savings through uBundle continue as long as the program is in effect for employers with 101 to 2,999 employees, as long as the qualifying benefits remain in force. uBundle is not available in all states.

**Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare 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 1.3 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.