News Report | November 18, 2018
UnitedHealth Moves Half Of Reimbursement To Value-Based Models
For the year-to-date, nearly half of United Health Group (UHG) reimbursements are through value-based care (VBC) models. On October 16, 2018, at its third quarter 2018 investor conference, Dan Schumacher, president and chief operating officer of the UHG UnitedHealthcare (UHC) business, said the company had about $69 billion in value-based contracts for the first nine-months of 2018 that represent just under half of its total medical and surgical spend. By 2020, UHG seeks to have $75 billion in reimbursements through value-based care models.
Although the third quarter earnings call did not go into detail . . .