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What a nightmare.
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Rating: 1/51

MARYLAND -- To start off, I've had terrible experiences with United Healthcare since I started their coverage a few years ago. It's come to a head recently after a coordination of benefits issue meant that they paid a hospital bill for my husband and then retracted the payment from the hospital. TWICE. Now the hospital, of course, is coming after us for the 6,000+ bill.

I have called and emailed countless times over the past 2 months. I've sent emails. I managed to get direct lines to 2 different people and have been leaving voicemail after voicemail, which has been ignored. I've sent the paperwork and letter from the other insurance company verifying the coverage dates and confirming that United is responsible for the bill. Nothing. And the hospital is threatening to sue us now b/c it has gone on for so long.

Finally, today, I left a nasty review on their FB page. I didn't really have much hope for this other than maybe warning others to try to find different health insurance. Not 10 minutes after I left the review, a member of their social media team contacted me. He got all of the information on the problem and filed an escalated ticket to get it handled quickly. AND he called the hospital and they've placed a 30-day hold on the account, with no collection activities, to give United time to deal with the coordination issue. So, what can I say? Um, the rest of United is TERRIBLE but their social media department is great, so far anyway.

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Ten Months of Waiting and UnitedHealthcare Have Still Not Paid for My Son's CAT Scan
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Rating: 1/51

PENNSYLVANIA -- I have already written to the CEO of UnitedHealthcare so I will be brief. This company has been stupendously inept. Here is a summary of their excuses for not paying...

  1. Not our patient - Laughably easy to disprove this one.
  2. Automatic rejection - If a payment is resubmitted after being rejected once it will automatically be rejected again.
  3. Patient has other coverage - So wish that were true. Unfortunately for me it isn't.
  4. Wrong hospital - I was there, I know which hospital I visited.
  5. Payment already made - An outright lie.
  6. Service provider is acting illegally - Audacious accusation and refuted by the provider.
  7. Service not covered - Standby excuse when all others have failed and the customer has not given up.

Each correction to their process takes an entire billing cycle - hence 10 months have elapsed with still no resolution. The hospital has lost patience and started debt collection proceedings against me. UHC assured me they would expedite a "Cease to Bill" letter - I have had to ask twice and still no letter after more than 2 weeks. I have noted everything so next I will be taking my evidence to the Ombudsman.

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United Healthcare Hearing Aid Plan Is A Fraud
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Rating: 1/51

KINGSTON, NEW YORK -- The company says they cover hearing aids. They say in their contract they will give you $1000 per ear over a 3 year period. The problem is that they will not approve any hearing aid purchase over $1000 dollars per ear and won't let you pay the difference out of your pocket. They only allow your Dr. to bill you $1000 per ear and cannot charge you amount over that.

They try to force you to buy hearing aids from Hi-Health innovations, that is a subsidiary of UHC (A SCAM). The hearing aids are cheap, ($800-900) per ear and will not work for me. The FDA has a cease and desist against this company for wrong practices. They also try to force you to get other very cheap hearing aids that will not work for me.

My audiologist has gotten burned many time by UHC and is even an in-network Dr for UHC. My Dr has not one good thing to say about the company. Most companies don't offer hearing coverage, but if they say they do, then they should and not mislead you or force you to buy what they want you to wear. I think it time to shop around for better insurance. I hope a lawyer looks over their contract and makes them change the wording in their contract.

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The Great Divider
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Rating: 1/51

KATY, TEXAS -- I have had insurance through most major carriers in my 40 years of working and some were good and some left a little to be desired, but United Health Care is undoubtedly the worst insurance company on the market. As with other stories here, they lie, they misrepresent and they deny coverage for coverage they say they in fact do allow for.

I am changing after the first of the year and will never use or recommend this insurance to anybody. My wife is going blind and she needs a medication for her eye (which Aetna when we had them had no problem approving) that UHC will not cover after lying to us and her doctor and saying, "Sure we cover that." It is $200 a week and a medicine she will have to use for a couple of years before she can get a cornea transplant something else they don't cover. All I can say is buyer beware when dealing with these crooks.

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Worst Healthcare
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Rating: 1/51

SOLANO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA -- United Healthcare takes over your Medicare makes decisions on your medications above and beyond your physician's recommendation. The pharmacy Optum RX has denied 2 of my 90-day supply medications informing me that the 90 day of each of these 2 medications were all I was going to get for a year supply and all refills are denied. My physician has appealed this decision and it was disapproved.

I am going to appeal the decision once again but these actions are causing undo stress and anxiety. I am retired and my insurance is through Calpers I had to change plans because my previous Blue Shield Ins. hadn't signed a new contract with my physician's medical group Sutter Regional. I feel sorry for anyone that has to deal with this insurance co. I wouldn't even give this company one star. I cannot wait till open enrollment and get my Blue Shield back. Someone needs to look into an insurance company that defies a physicians diagnosis and prescriptions. I writing this because if anyone is considering United Healthcare they might do a little research first.

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RX Coverage
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Rating: 1/51

CINCINNATI, OHIO -- Recently got notification from United Healthcare insurance that they will no longer cover my son's medication for ADD (Focalin), and did so with about 1 month's notice. I asked my son's pediatrician for a comparable alternative medication and he indicated there isn't one. Paying out of pocket will cost $200/month or more.

It is especially nice that UHC terminated coverage of this and other ADD meds right before school starts because the start of the school year is always particularly difficult for students with ADD. Now many of them will have to tackle it without the medication they need. Seems no one is aware how poorly UHC treats their "customers" until they experience it themselves.

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Denial, 4 Months After Approval
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Rating: 1/51

HEALTH INSURANCE, OHIO -- My daughter needed a neurostimulator placement for Occipital and Trigeminal Neuralgia. The surgery was scheduled for April 2014. The doctor's office sent all info to UHC for approval. The approval was received, dated 3/5/14. Unfortunately, the doctor had a family emergency out of the country and the surgery had to be cancelled. When he returned, the surgery was rescheduled for July 2014.

6 days prior to surgery, we received a call stating that UHC denied the surgery. Why? Pick a reason! "Not a covered benefit", "no medical evidence to support the procedure", or "waiting on a peer-to-peer review". Some physician, sitting in his "Internal Medicine" office in Illinois, decided that my daughter, who has about 10% quality of life at this point, did not need this! A neurosurgeon, after an extended consult, decided she DID need it, but this doctor who had never met her decided NO!!!

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"Network" Providers Not Available
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Rating: 1/51

TREASURE COAST, FLORIDA -- As some may or may not be aware United Healthcare terminated 70% of the "Network" providers from their panels. Of course as an insured with UHC notification of this action was not given until after "Open Enrollment" ended thereby locking me in another year with UHC, had this information been available before "Open Enrollment" ended I would not be with UHC anymore however UHC carefully navigated the timing of the terminations of the network physicians so as not to become know till it was too late.

My experience began January 21, 2014 my doctor had ordered "fasting" blood work, I called the lab the day before just to be sure I knew where I was going and confirm the hours, of course there was nothing more than a recording providing the address, directions and hours they are open and informing me there would be no live person to speak to at this location (I should have known right then there was a problem). I arrived at the address provided yet there was no sign, no indication a lab was there upon checking with neighboring properties I was told the lab had closed "months ago".

While standing right there I called UHC and after 25 minutes of checking of course I was told the lab was right there. I mailed them a picture of the empty office and then was provided another location to go to have my fasting blood work done without even an apology, I arrive at the next location provide to me by UHC and again the lab had closed months ago, went through the same scenario with UHC and they sent me to a 3rd location where a lab should have been and yes, believe it or not that location had also closed (Lab Corp was now the ONLY network lab for UHC they did not have to be convenient as we have no other choice.)

The fourth location was the charm. I arrived at the fourth location went to the reception desk to sign in on the sign in sheet for everyone that came in to see I had been there (so much for privacy) and was then told by the receptionist I would need to provide my credit card for them to copy and keep on file for any charges to be put on my credit card if not paid by UHC.

Now understand probably 80% of the time a charge is denied or not paid correctly and they would just put through the charge to my credit card leaving me to fight the battle with UHC and that being the least of the problems leaving your credit card on file for any "authorized" or maybe not even authorized person to use. NOT! I will not leave my credit card with anyone for an in case scenario. It is now 12:30 PM and I am still fasting, the room is spinning and I am feeling very light headed and still no blood work done because without my credit card there will be no blood work done.

I finally left went down the street to our community hospital and had the blood work done and did not provide my credit card to be kept on file and we all know UHC is not going to pay them and I am screwed because UHC only allows Lab Corp as a "network" Lab... what other choice did I have? 3 Locations I was provided to go to by UHC turned out to no longer exist and the fourth wanted to keep a copy of my credit card just in case!

No, the nightmare does not end there! I have been under treatment and had a Mohs surgery (for Basal Cell CA) done April 2013 had a couple of complications so January 2014 I was still under care for skin cancers or lesions that left go can become cancer. In December there was another lesion on my back this time I did not know UHC was terminating 70% of the network providers as of January 1, 2014 and my doctor was one of them. I had an appointment the beginning of January so I mentioned it to the doctor his response was "this doesn't look good" so the biopsy was done immediately, it came back a week later.

Melanoma, and surgery needed to be done. It was schedule to be done Feb but 3 days before the surgery UHC canceled the surgery and called to tell me to find someone in "Network." I am distressed as I already am under treatment for Basal Cell and I must go elsewhere but I moved forward as my doctor said I must get this taken care of. I go to the UHC website, put in my zip code and lo and behold, 51 doctors come up but that was not to be so true.

10 of the doctors are listed as many as 5 times with different addresses, 4 of them are more than an hour each way to get to but none had an available appointment until March 26th and it could not be with a doctor it was with a nurse and she would decide when and if I needed an appointment with the doctor (I am not taking the treatment or non treatment of my Melanoma to a nurse!) No wonder they advertise on TV constantly any quality competent physician does not need to advertise on TV for patients! They want to bill my insurance the same amount for a nurse as a physician they are not on the same level as an MD, sorry!

After much back and forth with UHC they found me an appointment with another doctor, I waited patiently for my appointment day, arrived with all my records in hand anxious to finally be seeing a doctor and moving forward with the treatment for the melanoma... NO that did not happen! Though United Healthcare made the appointment and insist this physician was in "network" his office insisted he did not accept my UHC even after speaking with UHC on the phone at length I was left with no treating physician and a melanoma on my back that can be spreading or even moving to other organs and no "Network" physician to see and treat me!

I spent more than 3 hours on the phone again yesterday with UHC and still do not have an appointment for what can be a deadly form of cancer, I am 58 years old there is no excuse, no justification for this to be happening. United Healthcare decided to terminated 70% of the "Network" providers because the fewer providers, the fewer appointments, the fewer appointments, the fewer procedures or surgeries can be done and guess what that all converts to... United Healthcare pays less money and makes larger profits without regard for the health and welfare of those of us locked into UHC until 2015!! This should be criminal.

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No Tele-a-Doc Service Available
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Rating: 1/51

After 3 weeks of battling an ear infection, I came up with an allergic reaction to the antibiotics. Unfortunately, it was 3:30am on Christmas morning when I finally decided to go to the 24 hour urgent care - only to find out it was closed. So I called the nurse hotline at United Healthcare. She was very sympathetic and gave me info about the virtual visits that United offered. I signed up and paid for my virtual visit at 4:09am. They confirmed my visit at 4:15am and gave an approximate wait time of 10 minutes.

By 4:43a, I contacted them again. The representative said I was in cue and 2 other doctors will try to reach me. I told him that I received an email saying that they tried to reach me but could not. We needed to problem solve because my computer works WELL and I was in their "waiting room" the entire time. He said that he is unable to help me because he cannot connect with that department. He said just wait for the other 2 doctors to try to reach me and reminded me that he is unable to troubleshoot. Long story short, this happened 2 other times. It is now 6:51am. United Health cancelled my virtual visit and my ear still hurts. I will definitely lobby my employer not to use them anymore!

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Called Me When I Was in Labor to Ask if I Was Having a Vaginal Delivery
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Rating: 1/51

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO -- Their billing department called me when I was in active labor in my hospital room for maybe an hour to ask if I had a vaginal delivery or C-section. Seems like their money is more important than what I was going through at the time. I was in a lot of pain and the phone kept ringing. I would not recommend this health insurance company; I would have a different insurance company if my employer offered others. I felt really disregarded by this action. I should have been able to concentrate on my labor and baby without worrying about anything else. This matter could have been handled at a later date. On top of that, it was a foreign lady whom I could barely understand.

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