That is the 3rd in a periodic collection about how UnitedHealth Staff wields its unmatched doctor empire to spice up its earnings and increase its affect. Learn Phase 1 and Phase 2.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — UnitedHealth Staff informed the Connecticut number one care medical doctors the whole lot they sought after to listen to.
Take our cash, the corporate mentioned, and in combination we will deliver a few long term the place number one care leads. A long term the place medical doctors can take higher care in their sufferers, and reap the monetary rewards of advanced well being. We’ll deal with the trade aspect whilst you take care of your sufferers.
As an alternative, nearly 10 years after UnitedHealth purchased ProHealth Physicians, the principle care community is a shell of its former self. Docs are retiring previous than they deliberate, or leaving for competing practices. Sufferers with severe scientific prerequisites fight to make appointments, whilst others bitch of mysterious diagnoses shooting up of their charts. Upset, many sufferers are leaving.
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