How to Find a Provider for United Healthcare

United Healthcare Corp. was founded in 1977 and services medical insurance plans for 20 million people in all 50 states. Finding a medical care facility or physician that accepts your particular insurance coverage used to involve the arduous task of calling each individual provider in a localized area on the telephone. Thanks to the Internet, United Healthcare provides a physician and healthcare facility database that allows you to quickly search for providers that will accept your insurance plan.

Instructions

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  Open up your computer's web browser. In the Resources section, click on the link provided for the United Healthcare “Find a Physician” search page.

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  Choose from the options presented on the webpage. You will be able to search for a physician, hospital, mental health facility or Medicaid physician.

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  Click on the appropriate search type option when the pop-up window appears on your screen (for example, physician, hospital or medical equipment supplier). Click on the “Continue” button located on the right side of the pop-up window when you have made your selection.

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  Select your particular plan from the appropriate drop-down selection box. Enter your address in the “Change Search Location” field and fill out the other optional search criteria if desired. Click “Continue” when you are finished making your selections.

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  Click on the appropriate medical field specialty check boxes to narrow the search results or leave the “All Specialties” box checked and press the “Continue” button.

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  Examine the provider search results page and click the “More” button under a particular provider for more information about him or her. Use the web browser's print function to print the list of providers for future reference.