United Health Proposes Managed-Care Plan For Those Who Get Both Medicare And Medicaid

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is proposing a managed-care plan for dual recipients of Medicare and Medicaid.

The insurer said the plan would "save as much as $1.62 trillion in the U.S. over 25 years," Bloomberg reports. "Almost 9 million Americans receive coverage from both Medicare, the U.S. health plan for the elderly and disabled, and the Medicaid program for the poor. UnitedHealth proposed in a report today to combine benefits of the programs into a single plan to better coordinate patient care.
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