{"id":9782,"date":"2018-03-09T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:11:58","slug":"unitedhealth-takes-aim-at-costly-ed-visits-with-new-policy-5-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9782","title":{"rendered":"UnitedHealth takes aim at costly ED visits with new policy: 5 things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>UnitedHealth Group&#8217;s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, changed its emergency department reimbursement policy for commercial and Medicare Advantage plans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/unitedhealth-takes-aim-at-costly-ed-visits-with-new-policy-5-things-to-know.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 20px; outline: 0px; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.4; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: auto; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Notice: The 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.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) UnitedHealth Group&#8217;s insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare, changed its emergency department reimbursement policy for commercial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","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=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9783,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}