UnitedHealthcare and Valley Preferred to Offer New Suite of Health Plans

Health insurance company, UnitedHealthcare has signed a partnership agreement with Valley Preferred, a provider organization and community partnership of doctors and hospitals, to offer employers with new suite of health plans.

With this new partnership, employers can choose from 11 plan designs within Valley Series plans’ Choice, Choice Plus and consumer-driven health (CDH) products including health savings accounts and health reimbursement accounts.

Through Valley Series, employees may have lower expenses when accessing 33 of the hospitals and more than 3,000 physicians and health care professionals featuring the Valley Preferred network.

Enrollees may also realize out-of-pocket cost savings by seeking care within UnitedHealthcare’s eastern Pennsylvania network, which includes an additional 46 hospitals and more than 12,000 physicians.

Valley Series will also adopt Valley Preferred’s ‘Care Beyond the Coverage,’ a corporate health-enhancement program that may be tailored to each employer’s needs and includes on-site health and wellness education, corporate health fairs, health seminars, employee assistance programs, health screenings and health awareness profiles.

Thomas Pappas, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania, said: “This partnership with Valley Preferred means more choice and greater flexibility to area business owners who wish to offer affordable health care to their employees.”