When I was with UHC in past, it was below medicare rates, but better than medicaid. I was getting quite the influx of UHC in that location, and was pretty much only person taking it, outside of the Big Box shops - which were backed out 6 months. My practice grew enough that I made decision to cut them out, and took several renditions of mailing/calling/faxing them that I was dropping them. I first tried saying, rates are poor, you got 30 days to fix this. Silence. Sent drop notice - several times - and then they immediately came back to me with a tiny fraction above medicare rates offer. I responded my leave notice still stands unless an offer of 2x-3x medicare is presented to me. Didn't happen. Even after the term date, it took them 6-9 months or longer to remove me from their directory.
Few patients called up saying you are in network I want in. We politely corrected, no we aren't, and thankfully I had my lists of communications to prove it, should there ever been any bigger issues later. Which there weren't, thankfully.
Only like 5%, of the UHC people stuck with me for cash pay. The exact number is in my private practice thread.
I had a Sleep Medicine doctor sublease from me in the past. Their UHC rates.... way, way, way better. Oh, and UHC, often does carve outs, too, and sends it to Optum or UBH, etc.
There is a reason why UHC is the largest publicly traded healthcare stock and issues dividends routinely. Cigna is a distant second...
@randomdoc1 takes UHC and has a 'magic recipe' to get higher rates, review her posts for your answers.
