United Healthcare issues

[pa8867]

Getting lots of emails and phone calls from my providers saying they are no longer United Healthcare providers.  What is going on.  I feel like it's time for a change.

[CarolynBI]

If you have traditional medicare and not an advantage plan then your insurance is good where ever medicare is accepted. Your medigap plan, which is issued by united health care, is required, by federal law, to pay when medicare pays. As a result all that matters is that your provider accepts medicare.

If, on the other hand, you have an advantage plan from united health care (eg plan C) then a provider can choose to accept it or not (they are not required to accept it).