Lexington Medical Center now participating in UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage network
March 4, 2019
People enrolled in UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans will have access to Lexington Medical Center and its physician practices as an in-network provider, effective April 1, 2019.
This new relationship provides plan participants with in-network access to Lexington Medical Center’s main hospital in West Columbia and its 70 physician practices.
“Lexington Medical Center is an important community provider in South Carolina and offers the people served by UnitedHealthcare greater choice and access to quality, cost-effective care,” said Tommy O’Connor, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, South Carolina. “We are grateful for the collaborative relationships we share with care providers like Lexington Medical Center.”
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 500,000 people in South Carolina enrolled in Medicare Advantage and employer-sponsored and individual health plans with a network of 66 hospitals and more than 17,000 physicians and other care providers statewide.
About Lexington Medical Center
Lexington Medical Center is a 438-bed hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs a staff of more than 6,500 health care professionals. The network also has cardiovascular and oncology care affiliated with Duke Health, an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and approximately 70 physician practices. Lexington Medical Center operates one of the busiest Emergency departments in South Carolina, treating approximately 85,000 patients each year. The hospital delivers more than 3,300 babies each year and performs more than 23,000 surgeries. Lexington Medical Center is currently undergoing the largest hospital expansion in South Carolina history by creating a new patient tower that will open in the spring of 2019. Lexington Medical Center has a reputation for the highest quality care. For more information, visit LexMed.com.
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 (NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
