{"id":25985,"date":"2026-05-19T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25985"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:56:47","slug":"unitedhealthcares-commercial-medical-costs-13-9-below-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25985","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealthcare\u2019s commercial medical costs 13.9% below benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, UnitedHealthcare\u2019s total cost of care \u2014 based on commercial large group PPO health plan claim costs \u2014 was 13.9% lower than the MarketScan benchmark, according to a March Milliman report commissioned by the insurer.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/unitedhealthcares-commercial-medical-costs-13-9-below-benchmark\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/research-analysis\/unitedhealthcares-commercial-medical-costs-13-9-below-benchmark\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In 2022, UnitedHealthcare\u2019s total cost of care \u2014 based on commercial large group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,21],"tags":[166,385,238],"class_list":["post-25985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25986,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions\/25986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}