UnitedHealthcare’s New Intelli-SeriesSM Expands Health Care Choice, Affordability for Employers and Consumers in Western Pennsylvania Consumer choice

UnitedHealthcare’s New Intelli-SeriesSM Expands Health Care Choice, Affordability for Employers and Consumers in Western Pennsylvania Consumer choice in accessing area hospitals helps reduce out-of-pocket health care costs West Penn Allegheny Health Syste
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) company, is launching a suite of health plan products in Western Pennsylvania called Intelli-SeriesSM that offer affordable and flexible health care coverage options with varying premiums and co-payments aligned with access to all West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS) facilities and select other regional hospitals.

The Intelli-Series suite of products is available Sept. 1 to consumers and employers in nine Western Pennsylvania counties – Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland. Intelli-Series offers a range of traditional and consumer-driven health plans – including HSAs and HRAs – that feature wellness and preventive-care services such as mammograms, childhood immunizations, colon cancer screenings and others at no additional charge.

Consumers realize greater health care costs savings in all Intelli-Series products by accessing any WPAHS facilities, including its two flagship hospitals, Allegheny General Hospital and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, and other select hospitals in UnitedHealthcare’s provider network in western Pennsylvania.

“Through our collaboration with West Penn Allegheny Health System and other health care providers, UnitedHealthcare is offering more flexible and affordable options to Western Pennsylvania employers that broaden access to quality, affordable health care for consumers,” said Thomas N. Pappas, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania. “As our relationship grows, we look forward to further developing programs that engage our members to live healthier lives through wellness programs and targeted health initiatives.”

“We are proud to be the anchor tertiary hospital system for the Intelli-Series products. Intelli-Series will provide valuable health plan choices through highly competitive premiums for employers and cost-share options and preventive care measures for members,” said Jerry J. Fedele, president and CEO of WPAHS. “We are excited about expanding our relationship with UnitedHealthcare as an in-network health care provider, an employer offering UnitedHealthcare plan designs to its employees and, most significantly, as a partner to develop viable regional solutions to foster improved access to high quality affordable health care.”

About West Penn Allegheny Health System
West Penn Allegheny Health System (www.wpahs.org) is comprised of some of the oldest and best-known names in health care in western Pennsylvania. From their inception, the system's hospitals have been in the vanguard of patient care, medical research and health sciences education. Offering a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services, the hospitals serve Pittsburgh and the surrounding five-state area, house more than 2,000 beds and employ more than 14,000 people. The WPAHS system is comprised of two tertiary and four community hospitals, which are Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, both in Pittsburgh; Alle-Kiski Medical Center in Natrona Heights; Canonsburg General Hospital in Canonsburg; The Western Pennsylvania Hospital – Forbes Regional Campus in Monroeville; and AGH – Suburban Campus in Bellevue, in addition to four other facilities owned by WPAHS. More than 650 physicians admit to WPAHS facilities. Together, the WPAHS hospitals admit approximately 80,000 patients each year, log in excess of 173,000 emergency visits and deliver nearly 5,000 newborns. Combined, the hospitals are among the leaders in percentages of total surgeries, cardiac surgeries, neurosurgeries and cardiac catheterization procedures performed throughout the region.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 26 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 535,000 physicians and care professionals and 4,700 hospitals nationwide to offer them broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.
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