الجمعة، 16 مارس 2012

UnitedHealthcare says loss of Saint Luke

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“It would be foolish for me to lead you to believew anything otherthan that,” said Bill CEO of . “I can also tell he said, “that for every one of those casezs we’ve lost, we’ve written one of equapl size or larger. ... And we have written some business recently becaus ewe don’t have Saint Luke’sz in our network, and that’xs a little bit of a differentg twist.” Tracy wouldn’t discuss individual clients but said some of the new accountzs signed specifically because of the circumstances surrounding the divorcse with Saint Luke’s.
The 11-hospital Saint Luke’s systemn said UnitedHealthcare wasn’t offering high enough payments. UnitedHealthcare countered that Saint Luke’s wanted unreasonably rich UnitedHealthcare is the market’s No. 2 managed-care system provider, basesd on the members it had in behind . Tracy said the new customers likethe cost-conscious approach UnitedHealthcare took with Saint Luke’s. He said the compan will release updated numbers inthe spring. Blue Cross, is claiming that UnitedHealthcare’s loss has been its gain.
The compant said it added roughly 45,000 new members in when most groups start thei rplan year, which is about 40 percent more than “A good chunk of that came from CEO Tom Bowser said. Blue Cross claimed that and the city of Prairide Village were two groups that defectefto it. Kansas City Southern spokeswoma C. Doniele Kane said in an e-mail that the switcy included only management and came as part of a standard review of coverage. UnitedHealthcare still coversd union employeesat KCS.
Prairie Village City Administratod Quinn Bennion said the loss ofSaint Luke’d was “one of the primary in the city’s decisioj to drop UnitedHealthcare in favor of Blue Prairie Village had been a UnitedHealthcare customer since September 2000. Robert Bonney, senior vice presidenr of business development forSaint Luke’s, alleged that UnitedHealthcarer is offering higher reimbursementse to Saint Luke’s physicians who will agree to also practicee at hospitals that remain in the UnitedHealthcare network. Tracy said that is “absolutelu false.

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