UnitedHealth Group to Release New Report on Potential for Technology to Improve Administrative Processes in Health Care and Reduce Costs

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH):

WHAT:

 

UnitedHealth Group will release a new report on how technology and other process changes can save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars by modernizing the administrative approaches currently used by physicians, hospitals and insurers. The report is a companion to the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization’s recent paper that offered policymakers “real-world” options on how to reduce costs and improve the quality of care as they continue to explore legislative solutions to reform our nation’s health care system.

 

WHO:

Simon Stevens, UnitedHealth Group executive vice president and director of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization
 
David Wichmann, president, UnitedHealth Group Operations
 

WHEN:

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Lunch will be provided

 

WHERE:

UnitedHealth Group Offices
Suite 650, 6th Floor Conference Room
701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC
 

For more information, please contact John Parker at 202-654-9931 or john_e_parker@uhc.com.  The briefing is for media only.

 

To RSVP, call Sandra Johnson at 202-383-6423.

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group is a diversified health and well-being company dedicated to making health care work better. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., UnitedHealth Group offers a broad spectrum of products and services through six operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, OptumHealth, Ingenix, and Prescription Solutions. Through its family of businesses, UnitedHealth Group serves more than 70 million individuals nationwide.

Contacts

UnitedHealth Group
John Parker, 202-654-9931
john_e_parker@uhc.com

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