Many employers supply a bunch of well being and wellness options to help workers. Nevertheless, managing these options could be difficult for employers and navigating them could be tough for workers. To make it simpler for each teams, UnitedHealthcare thrown out the UHC Middle final week.
The platform is free for big self-funded employers with greater than 1,000 workers. UHC Hub makes it simple for organizations to handle procurement, provider administration and billing for third-party healthcare options. The platform permits employers to pick from UHC Hub’s menu of well being options to rent. Options handle wants corresponding to diet, monetary planning, household constructing, most cancers care and caregiving. UHC Hub Suppliers embrace psychological well being supplier Brightside, household and ladies’s well being supplier Maven Clinic and musculoskeletal care firm Hinge Well being.
For workers, UHC Hub helps them discover and enroll in options which might be obtainable by way of their insurance coverage. The UHC Hub could be accessed by way of the UnitedHealthcare app, myuhc.com, or by talking with one of many insurer’s well being advocates.
UnitedHealthcare determined to create the UHC Hub after listening to the challenges many employers and workers had been dealing with, he mentioned Samantha Baker, chief shopper officer for UnitedHealthcare’s business enterprise.
“After we work with many employers, we consistently hear in regards to the difficulties in evaluating and deciding on well being and wellness packages, in addition to the executive burden of managing a number of suppliers and contracts,” Baker mentioned in an e-mail. “Not solely that, however we additionally know that workers usually underutilize a few of these options, largely resulting from a lack of understanding.
“Our purpose with UHC Hub is to assist remedy each challenges by streamlining the analysis, choice and administration of varied vendor options whereas making it simpler for shoppers to search out and reap the benefits of obtainable assets,” Baker continued.
UnitedHealthcare claims the platform can cut back prices for employers by as much as 15% in comparison with what they pay by managing these options on their very own. Baker added that it might save human assets departments time by “consider, implement and promote these well being packages.” Moreover, it helps employers “maximize the worth of the investments they’re making in these assets” by serving to shoppers discover well being packages, Baker mentioned.
As increasingly more employers wrestle with level answer fatigue, a number of corporations try to supply help. Accolade, Quantum well being and Solera Well being All supply platforms that assist join workers to well being and wellness packages whereas streamlining the executive course of for employers. Nevertheless, Baker declined to share how UHC Hub is totally different from what different corporations are doing.
Baker mentioned the launch of the UHC Hub speaks to broader tendencies in healthcare, with extra employers targeted on advocacy help.
“The launch of UHC Hub underscores the significance of promotional options whereas highlighting the worth of providing shoppers an built-in and simplified expertise,” he mentioned. “By making it simpler for shoppers to grasp and use their advantages, together with entry to related well being packages, employers are higher positioned to help the well-being of their workforce and assist make well being care extra reasonably priced.”
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