Minnesota seniors feel like pawns in HealthPartners, UnitedHealthcare dispute – Star Tribune

For most people, the bottom line is uncertainty. Dennis Rodriguez poses for a portrait in front of his St. Paul home on Aug. 8. Rodriguez is one of about 30,000 seniors caught up in a contract dispute between UnitedHealthcare and HealthPartners. (Shari L. Gross / Star Tribune) Mary Boyd, a former St. Paul school administrator, […]
St. Paul school retirees caught up in HealthPartners, UnitedHealthcare dispute – Star Tribune

About 2,300 St. Paul Public Schools retirees will be directly affected by HealthPartners’ decision next year to drop out of UnitedHealthCare’s network of Medicare Advantage plans for seniors. In a statement to the Star Tribune, the school district said it was working with its insurance company to “identify potential next steps” but did not elaborate […]
HealthPartners leaving UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage network – Star Tribune

HealthPartners said it will drop out of UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage plan network next year, accusing the nation’s largest health insurer of excessively high rates of denials and frequently delaying payments for services used by seniors. Bloomington-based HealthPartners, one of the Twin Cities’ largest hospital and clinic operators, sent letters this week to about 30,000 patients […]