UnitedHealthcare Named New Health Plan Administrator for the City of San Antonio
Posted on: Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 15:00 CDT
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) company, has been selected as the health plan administrator for the City of San Antonio. Effective Jan. 1, 2008, UnitedHealthcare will become the new carrier for approximately 10,800 city employees and over 26,000 total covered lives.
"We are honored that the City of San Antonio has selected UnitedHealthcare to provide its employees with quality, affordable health care solutions," said Jeff Cook, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Central Texas. "We look forward to offering health care products and services that engage the City of San Antonio employees more directly in their own health and health care decisions and provide them with information about health care quality and costs so they can make more informed health care choices."
City employees and their dependents will have access to UnitedHealthcare's "Choice Plus" network of nearly 30,000 physicians and 420 hospitals throughout Texas. In addition, enrollees may take advantage of UnitedHealthcare's numerous health information and education programs, including: a 24-hour nurse line; easy-to-use cost and quality information for physicians and hospitals; and online self-service tools that enable employees to access their personal health records, plan transactions and account information at any time.
"After an extensive review process and in consultation with the Hay Group, we selected UnitedHealthcare because they could best meet the needs of our employees and the City of San Antonio. We look forward to beginning a long term partnership with UnitedHealthcare," said Edward Belmares, Director of Human Resources for the City of San Antonio.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.uhc.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 26 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 537,000 physicians and care professionals and more than 4,700 hospitals nationwide to offer consumers broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.
Source: Business Wire
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