John Garven

The Washington Post (6/11, Aizenman) reports, “The nation’s largest health insurer will keep in place several key consumer provisions mandated by the 2010 health-care law regardless of whether the statute survives Supreme Court review.” According to the Post, “officials at UnitedHealthcare will announce Monday that whatever the outcome of the court decision – expected this month – the company will continue to provide customers preventive health-care services without co-payments or other out-of-pocket charges, allow parents to keep adult children up to age 26 on their plans, and maintain the more streamlined appeals process required by the law.”

The New York Times (6/11, Abelson) noted that “UnitedHealth declined to say what it planned to do regarding some of the more significant changes now required by the law in 2014, when insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage to someone with a pre-existing condition or ask those in poor health to pay more.”