Christopher Snowbeck

Duluth-based health system cited high rates of claim denials and delayed payments as the reason for exiting these plans.

From huge charges and enormous discounts to ‘reason codes’ for insurance coverage denials, perplexing paperwork is a common side effect with health care.

The Minnesota-based insurer said he owed $275. The surgery center in St. Cloud wanted another $3,300. UnitedHealth owns both and is now apologizing.

Health systems are investing in construction as financial results improve following pandemic slowdown.

Word of the change comes one month after HealthPartners said it would leave the Medicare Advantage network at UnitedHealthcare next year.

Blue Cross of Minnesota paying $83K penalty over denied claims for sleep treatment

Minnesota hospitals showing signs of financial recovery, but still not at pre-COVID levels

The nonprofit group, which shut down operations in July, filed its dissolution papers with the Attorney General’s Office.

Police chief called the incident “outrageous” and said young people stealing cars are getting caught up in other serious crimes.

Data from 1 in 3 Americans may have been involved in the cyberattack on a subsidiary of the Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth earlier this year.