HealthPartners leaving UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage network over high claim denial rate

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HealthPartners leaving UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage network over high claim denial rate, 7/23/24

HealthPartners announced Tuesday that it will no longer be part of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage network starting next year.

The nonprofit healthcare organization says it made the decision because "UnitedHealthcare delays and denies approval of payment for our patients' Medicare Advantage claims at a rate unlike any other insurer in our market." HealthParnters claims its denial rate with UnitedHealthcare has been up to 10 times higher than that of other insurers it works with.

The change applies to care provided at HealthPartners and Park Nicollet clinics and hospitals, including Methodist, Regions and Lakeview hospitals. ((These are all Twin Cities or near Twin Cities locations -Progree))

Last week, 11 people were arrested outside the UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnetonka for protesting what they allege is the company's practice of not paying for care.

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