UnitedHealthcare to Offer Risk-Sharing in Type 2 Diabetes Program

More and more plan sponsors are interested in introducing risk-based reimbursement in their contracts with health insurers. That interest has grown into a range of plan designs: On the extreme end, plan sponsors like CalPERS are introducing upside and downside risk to entire third-party administrator contracts. A more incremental approach sees health insurers offering upside risk to plan sponsors based on the health insurer’s ability to control costs for a specific condition. 

UnitedHealthcare on June 26 launched such an offering, called the Level2 Assured Value Program. It’s a new payment model for an existing Type 2 diabetes management benefit design called Level2.