UnitedHealthcare (UHC) Community Plan announced it has added four additional upstate New York counties to its service area for Medicaid Managed Care and Family Health Plus. The addition of Lewis, Seneca, Wayne, and Ontario counties brings the number of New York counties in the service area for UHC Community Plan to 38, the health insurer […]
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) Community Plan announced it has added four additional upstate New York counties to its service area for Medicaid Managed Care and Family Health Plus.
The addition of Lewis, Seneca, Wayne, and Ontario counties brings the number of New York counties in the service area for UHC Community Plan to 38, the health insurer said in a news release.
Medicaid Managed Care and Family Health Plus are state-government sponsored health-insurance programs, UHC added.
The programs are available throughout Central and Western New York, along with the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and in New York City, according to UHC.
In addition to Lewis, Seneca, Wayne, and Ontario, the 38 counties also include Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Tioga in Central New York and the Southern Tier.
Additional counties include Albany, Bronx, Chautauqua, Columbia, Essex, Fulton, Genesee, Kings, Monroe, Nassau, New York, Niagara, Orange, Queens, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Ulster, Warren and Westchester, UHC said.
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan offers programs for adults and children who may qualify for Medicaid and Child Health Plus. These programs offer “comprehensive” health coverage, including preventive care, primary care, hospitalization, prescriptions and other services, “often with little or no cost,” according to UHC.
UnitedHealthcare continues expanding its service area and wellness programs so more eligible New Yorkers and their families can access “affordable, quality” health-care [coverage], particularly preventive care, Pat Celli, president of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New York, said in the news release.
The company last August announced plans to hire more than 60 new employees to support its recent expansion in New York.
In that news release, UHC indicated it employs more than 4,000 people in 18 locations across New York, following “significant” expansion in its Kingston and Tonawanda locations during 2012.
The health insurer hired more than 1,000 employees to support growth at these two locations alone, the company said.
UnitedHealthcare, a business of Minnetonka, Minn.–based UnitedHealth Group, Inc. (NYSE: UNH), serves nearly 4 million New York residents with a care-provider network of 232 hospitals and more than 58,000 physicians and other health-care professionals statewide, the company said.
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