UnitedHealth Group is offering 5-20% premium credits for some plans during pandemic; Company says credits will total $1.5B

Bruce Japsen / Forbes
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Context

• UnitedHealth Will Speed Payments to Doctors, Hospitals – help providers smooth cash flows and avoid furloughs – Wall Street Journal
• UnitedHealth Group posts $3.4B in Q1 profit, beats analyst projections – Fierce Healthcare
• UnitedHealth Group Weighing Return To Obamacare Markets – Forbes

Discussion

Bruce Japsen: “Interesting thing about UnitedHealth Group discounts is that it also keeps the patient seeing an Optum provider. A Big Business win-win amid a pandemic “