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United Healthcare, Dallas, Texas Complaints & Reviews - Medical Claims

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United Healthcare

Posted: 2009-10-01 by

JJ4444

Medical Claims

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United Healthcare
Dallas, Texas
United States

I have a son who receives "covered" Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy weekly, and for the last entire year, United Healthcare has HABITUALLY processed the claims incorrectly and/or unbelievably slowly.

The 1-800 agents are rude, incompetent, and the "claims appeal" process is a joke. I literally call them on a weekly basis and get no clear direction on how they want the bills to come/how I should file. For my company, we only have a year to appeal claims and United just runs the clock out on you.

Additionally, the pharmacy coverage is laughable. Btw, I work for a mid-size company (approx 26k employees).

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2nd of Jan, 2010 by

serene761

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My husbands company just changed the insurance company to united health care. We were told by the UHC representitive that my sons speech therapies will not be covered. We have been paying them out of our pockets. Any advice?

15th of Jan, 2010 by

gaylee0124

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WE ARE A 7 DOCTOR PRACTICE WITH MANY UHC PATIENTS. THE REPS ON THE 1-800 LINE ARE ALL FOREIGNERS WHO BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR PROBLEM AND I AM CALLING EVERY 2 WEEKS TO GET MY CLAIM REPROCESSED. THEY ARE RUDE AND EITHER HANG UP ON YOU OR LEAVE YOU ON HOLD INDEFINITELY. I JUST FILED A FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH THE NJ DEPT OF BANKING AND INSURANCE. I NEED EVERYONE TO COMPLAIN SO THAT WE CAN GET SOMETHING RESOLVED. OUTSOURCING CLAIMS DOESN'T WORK!!!

17th of Feb, 2010 by

wrye1226

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I have the same problem...We are an anesthesia group in Texas that is NOT in network with UHC. When an insurance company pays out of network we will call them and most every other insurance companywill reprocess our claims in-network (RAPS) if the facility and/or surgeon is in their network because the patient has no choice as to sho to use for anesthesia. With UHC, I always get a foreign person that I can hardly understand and they cannot understand what I am saying to them. Sometimes they will tell me the claim will be reprocessed and they give me a reference number and say to allow 15 busniess days...I'll call back in about a month and I am told it was not processed right and they will send it back through to be reprocessed and tell me to use the same reference number when I call back to check status. I have to keep doing this over and over on the same patients. Every once in a while I wil get an American and when I do...I am so thankful. WHY DOES UNITED HEALTHCARE PUT THEIR COSTOMERS THROUGH THIS? I have asked an American rep before why does a foreign person always answer and I was told they were trying to change things to where they are getting rid of the people in India. I just want to hang up when those people answer the phone and then they tell me their name...it's always an American name like...John, Sue, Jack...etc... we know that's not their real name...I am just so thankful I don't have United Healthcare as my Insurance and feel sorry for all those who do. They waste so much of my time!!!

3rd of Sep, 2010 by

agardner

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I totally agree.. the claims and appeals process is a complete joke. I have been denied three times for emergency surgery that already took place when we were out of town and "out of network." I have gotten so much conflicting information from UHC, wasting hours and hours on the phone. And yet, they denied the claim again today.

12th of Sep, 2010 by

hookem

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wrye1226:

What an idiot. Where did you take the discussion to make a tirade of an Indian call center? Jealous of your smarter Indian physician counterparts?

30th of Nov, 2010 by

denver101

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I thought my old Oxford coverage was bad because they kept upping the cost of pharmacy copays but I paid out of pocket for an emergency surgery which is covered by UHC for out of network doctors and I have had to send the claims form in twice and the claim is still "in process" three month from the operation. I lucked out with getting native English speakers but they basically had no idea what they were talking about. One operator told me that UHC would notify my doctor via snail mail to resubmit a claim form with x-ray. Point 1, UHC never notified my doctor and thank god I called them to make sure or the resubmission would never have occurred. Point 2, why would anyone send a letter instead of email unless they wanted to hold on to their cash flow as long as possible. Insurance companies suck and if my company did not automatically enroll us, I would rather risk paying for the sum total of my medical bills than give a single penny to these vultures of society.