- Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, Quest will be participating as a national provider of laboratory services for all UnitedHealthcare plan participants
- Partnership will include broad range of value-based programs, rewarding high-quality, easily accessible laboratory services at the best value and real-time data sharing to drive more personalized care support
UnitedHealthcare and Quest Diagnostics DGX have established a long-term strategic partnership as the two organizations focus on ways to create more personalized care recommendations and a simpler consumer experience for the more than 48 million people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare plans. Quest will be in network for all UnitedHealthcare plan participants beginning Jan. 1, 20191.
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As part of the expanding relationship, UnitedHealthcare and Quest will collaborate on a variety of value-based programs, bringing the same aligned incentives and enhanced patient experience to lab services as exist today in accountable care arrangements between UnitedHealthcare and more than 1,100 hospitals and 110,000 physicians. Working together, UnitedHealthcare and Quest will strategically change the way they are able to support consumers' health care needs by using real-time data sharing to help better anticipate people's care options – and reducing gaps in care – similar to the model UnitedHealthcare already uses to integrate medical and pharmacy data.
"Lab data is quickly becoming the personalized roadmap that identifies the path to the next best action for individual patients," said Dan Schumacher, President and Chief Operating Officer, UnitedHealthcare. "With the addition of Quest to our network we will now be able to work together on an even broader scale, and we appreciate that Quest has helped develop a value-based approach to lab services that will focus on improving patient outcomes, better coordinating care with physicians, and meaningfully reducing costs."
"We are pleased to expand our relationship with UnitedHealthcare, and excited about the framework of this agreement, which builds on Quest's growing relationship with UnitedHealth Group," said Steve Rusckowski, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Quest Diagnostics. "We believe consumers are best served when they have access to the unmatched convenience, access, quality and value that Quest offers. We look forward to serving all UnitedHealthcare members in the U.S., beginning in 2019."
The two companies' long-term collaboration also sets the foundation for the development of more modern benefit designs focused on incenting individuals to use high-quality, cost-effective in-network labs while setting industry-leading standards for ease of access and the patient experience.
Quest, which is an in-network lab for a limited number of UnitedHealthcare plans in some markets today, has 6,000 patient access points and will be in network nationwide for all plan participants beginning Jan. 1, 2019.
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest
Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes.
Derived from a robust research and development program and the world's
largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal
new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and
improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult
Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States,
and our 45,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with
the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that
transform lives. For more information, please visit www.QuestDiagnostics.com.
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conference call can be accessed in listen-only mode by dialing
888-455-0391, passcode INVESTOR. The company suggests participants dial
in approximately 10 minutes before the call.
A replay of the call may be accessed online at www.QuestDiagnostics.com/investor or by phone at 866-434-5245 for domestic callers or 203-369-0999 for international callers. Telephone replays will be available from approximately 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 24, 2018 until midnight Eastern Time on June 7, 2018.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare
is dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the
health system work better for everyone by simplifying the health care
experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining
trusted relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1.2 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide.
The company also provides health benefits and delivers care to people
through owned and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group UNH, a diversified health care company. For more information, visit
UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or
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