India
UnitedHealthcare India, a wholly owned subsidiary of
UnitedHealth Group, is a leader for consultation, evaluation, development
of corporate health plans and employee health benefits in India. UnitedHealthcare
India introduced and implemented the concept of managed health care services
in India in 1996.
Through offices in 13 major cities, including in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta, Bangalore,
Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Cochin we serve an Indian client base
of 240 corporations, with approximately 450,000 members. Our network, HealthConnect,
includes 3,500 hospitals and nursing homes in 800 cities, and more than 3,000
diagnostic centers, specialist consultants, and primary care physicians, giving
us a wide network spread across 600 cities.
We have organized ourselves in a manner that helps achieve the highest
levels of efficiency, communication and most importantly, employee satisfaction.
Moreover we are committed to improving the healthcare experience for
everyone involved: the insurer who provides the cover and benefits, the
employers who purchase it, the healthcare provider who delivers it and
most of all, the employees and plan members who use it.
We are a company in evolution, and we will continue to find newer and better
ways to deliver information and services to all your employees. We will:
- Focus on improving processes, advancing technology, using knowledge and information, driving innovation and running disciplined operations.
- Use technology to make our services as efficient, effective and up-to-date as we can.
- Continue to measure our own performance and make the results available to provide an objective assessment of how well we’re doing our job.
UnitedHealthcare India offers a complete range of health
care services such as:
Employee health plan design
- Claims management/administration; and call center services
- Preferred provider organization - HealthConnect
- Health risk management
- Occupational health
- Case management and disease management services
- Pre-enrollment screening and medical examination services and logistics for life insurers
- Consumer-driven health care services
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Metis Insurance Brokers is a specialized employee benefits
advisory and an insurance services company engaged in providing effective
and sustainable solutions in the employee benefits segment mainly
in health, disability, life and overseas travel to corporates. Incepted
in 2003, Metis is headquartered in Mumbai that works with over 90 plus
multi local corporates across India covering over 300,000 beneficiaries.
UnitedHealthGroup, founded in 1974, is a Fortune 25 company (www.unitedhealthgroup.com)
providing healthcare services in the United States, Six Asian and European
countries. The organization is an innovative leader in the health and well-being
industry, serving approximately 70 million clients. It operates through
four segments: UnitedHealthcare National Accounts, Health Care Services,
Specialized Care Services, and Ingenix. The company is headquartered in
Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Through this partnership Metis and UnitedHealth Group endeavor to use their
collective expertise, learning and resources in the Indian market.
In an environment of ever-rising health care costs, Metis, a
benefits risk manager, is known in the corporate world for providing
advice on long term and sustainable health care strategy, design,
financing and implementation of a health plan. The firm provides
periodic in-depth review of the performance of the plan to help the client
organization’s management evaluate the outcomes and take corrective steps.
Team Metis
The team constitutes of Sr. consultants, business analysts, financial and
transaction processing, medical management, claims and IT specialists with
60 man-years of industry experience.
With de-tariffing of general insurance industry coupled with years of cross
subsidy, the healthcare portfolio will face tremendous change going forward
and this can be managed only with teams that have deeper understanding
of all the relevant components in the healthcare delivery system so that
corporates are guided to develop long term and sustainable benefits model.
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