Many employers provide a wealth of well being and wellness options to assist workers. Nonetheless, managing these options could be difficult for employers and tough for workers to navigate. To make it simpler for each teams, UnitedHealthcare launched the UHC Hub final week.

The platform is free for big, self-funded employers with greater than 1,000 workers. UHC Hub makes it simpler for organizations to deal with buying, vendor administration, and billing for third-party healthcare options. The platform permits employers to select from UHC Hub's menu of well being options with which they will contract. The options meet wants corresponding to vitamin, monetary planning, household constructing, most cancers care and casual care. Suppliers of UHC Hub Involving psychological well being supplier Brightside, girls's and household well being care supplier Maven Clinic and musculoskeletal care firm Hinge Well being.

For workers, UHC Hub helps them discover and enroll in options obtainable to them via their insurance coverage. UHC Hub could be accessed via the UnitedHealthcare app, myuhc.com or by talking with one of many insurer's well being advocates.

UnitedHealthcare determined to create UHC Hub after listening to the challenges many employers and workers had been going through Samantha Baker, Chief Shopper Officer for UnitedHealthcare's business operations.

“Working with many employers, we constantly hear in regards to the difficulties in evaluating and deciding on well being and wellness packages, in addition to the executive burdens related to managing a number of distributors and contracts,” Baker mentioned in an electronic mail . “Not solely that, however we additionally know that a few of these options are sometimes underutilized by workers, largely on account of a ignorance.

“Our objective with the UHC Hub is to assist remedy each challenges by streamlining the analysis, choice and administration of various vendor options whereas making it simpler for shoppers to search out and make the most of the assets obtainable,” 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 themselves. Baker added that it will probably save time for HR departments by “evaluating, implementing and selling these well being packages.” Moreover, it helps employers “maximize the worth of the investments they make in these assets” by serving to shoppers discover the well being packages, Baker mentioned.

As increasingly employers face resolution fatigue, a number of firms are attempting to offer assist. Accolade, Quantum well being And Solera Well being all provide platforms that assist join workers to well being and wellness packages whereas streamlining the executive course of for employers. Nonetheless, Baker declined to debate how UHC Hub differs from what different firms do.

Baker mentioned the launch of UHC Hub responds to bigger traits in healthcare, with extra employers turning to advocacy assist.

“The launch of the UHC Hub underscores the significance of advocacy options whereas highlighting the worth of offering an built-in, simplified expertise to shoppers,” she mentioned. “By making it simpler for shoppers to know and entry its advantages, together with tapping into related well being packages, employers are higher positioned to assist the well-being of their workers and make well being care extra reasonably priced.”

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