UnitedHealth Alters Pay Rules on Cancer Treatments
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UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. health insurer by sales, will pay cancer doctors to stop marking up the prices of drugs, in a test aimed at reducing costs for medical plans and their customers.
Physicians serving 1,500 cancer patients in Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas will receive reimbursement for the wholesale cost of medicine they administer, plus a fee that will stay the same regardless of the drugs involved, UnitedHealth said today in a statement.