UnitedHealthcare Says It Won’t Restrict ER Services Coverage

  • Jan 07, 2022

    UnitedHealthcare — which last summer drew the ire of provider groups when it announced plans to roll out more restrictive coverage policies for emergency care — is now making it clear that it has no plans to implement such a change.

    In a letter sent Dec. 30 to the American Hospital Association (AHA), the insurer sought to reassure the trade group that “consistent with our prior communication in June 2021, UnitedHealthcare is not implementing any new policy regarding coverage criteria for emergency level care on January 1, 2022.”

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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