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In a new report, the Minnetonka, Minn.-based healt h insurer, which operates in Coloradop said many ofthe cost-savin g measures it’s using coulf be applied throughout the government’s Medicare insurance progra for the elderly. “This repory provides concrete examples of how we can modernize our health care system in a thoughtful andsustainable way, partly through proven programs that are alreadyt working,” said Simon Stevens, a UnitedHealth executive vice presidengt in charge of the company’s health reforkm efforts.
The new cost-saving suggestione for the government come weeks afted a host of health care industry interests including America’s Health Insurance the American Medical Association and the Service Employeesz International Union — pledged to President Barack Obamza that they would take steps to cut $2 trilliomn in expenses over the next decade. UnitedHealth is telling the governmenf that it cansave money, too. The saving s would come from the government instituting programsz that promote health and bettercoordinate care, preventing hospitalizations and other more costly health emergencies in the long run. for example, suggested the government couldsave $165.
5 billiobn from 2010 to 2019 if UnitedHealth’s Evercare which places nurse practitioners in nursing homex to coordinate care, was copied in all institutional settingsx serving Medicare beneficiaries. Other proposed savingsx include $55 billion by reducing seniors’ avoidable readmissiond to hospitals, partly by providing “transitional support. Also, $37 billion could be savexd through voluntary programs in which seniors choose to receive care from providerds deemed to have both high quality and efficiency.
The report is anotheer exampleof UnitedHealth’s efforts to actively engagew in the health reform process, rathed than oppose it as many health insurerx did when the Clinton administration sought to overhaul the system in the
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