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UHC is characterizing its offerings as providing better ancillary benefits, lower prescription drug costs and improvements to core benefits.
The funding is intended to improve service delivery, promote the adoption of healthy behaviors and reduce existing health disparities.
Payers are taking such steps as authorizing prescription refills and waiving prior authorizations to adding emergency and support services.
High drug prices create affordability challenges for patients and the healthcare system, one of two reports found.
The combined companies will connect and simplify core clinical, administrative and payment processes, Optum says.
Restrictions in charity care and unclear eligibility criteria are still common and deserve regulatory attention, authors say.
The feature enables members to receive comprehensive virtual healthcare through a team that includes dedicated primary care providers.
Cost-sharing limit for insulin is $35 a month and recommended adult vaccines will be at no additional cost.
Associates will have access to Kindbody's network of facilities, including a new clinic and in vitro fertilization lab in Rogers, Arkansas.
The idea is to ensure more eligible people retain Medicaid coverage; the initiatives coincide with the Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.