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Every year, billions of {dollars} in advantages are unused. Uno Well being hopes to vary this with its current launch of the Uno Financial savings Information, a useful resource that helps folks decide their eligibility for monetary profit packages.

Uno Well being, primarily based in New York, works with well being plans to attach members to state and federal packages. The Uno Financial savings Information, in the meantime, is a free on-line useful resource obtainable to anybody. It asks customers a collection of questions that take 30 seconds to reply, just like the state they stay in and their month-to-month family earnings. The device then tells customers what income-based packages they probably qualify for, akin to Medicaid, Medicare Financial savings Packages, SNAP, utility, prescription and cellphone help. 

It additionally supplies estimates of how a lot they might save with these packages and hyperlinks to utility types, in addition to tips about how one can enroll efficiently. The device is required as Individuals face Medicare Benefit profit cuts and potential Medicaid adjustments sooner or later, stated Anna De Paula Hanika, co-founder and CEO at Uno Well being.

“Our main purpose is to assist as many eligible folks as attainable entry the advantages they desperately want, particularly on this difficult financial setting and interval of uncertainty round security web packages,” De Paula Hanika said in an electronic mail. “We wish to elevate consciousness that this help exists and make it simpler to entry.”

The Uno Financial savings Information is obtainable in each English and Spanish. It’s presently obtainable for customers in New York, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Missouri. Uno Well being plans to broaden the device to New Jersey, California, Minnesota and Oregon within the close to future.

To make folks conscious of the Uno Financial savings Information, the corporate is selling the device on its web site, social media channels and electronic mail communications, in response to De Paula Hanika. It is usually working with quite a lot of companions — together with suppliers, nonprofits and retailers — to extend consciousness.

The Uno Financial savings Information makes use of Uno Well being’s guidelines engine, which processes complicated program guidelines for every state and converts them into an easy-to-understand set of questions. The corporate makes use of the identical eligibility checker for its contracted companions however needed to supply a public model of its know-how to assist extra folks.

“Thirty-eight million Individuals stay at or under the federal poverty degree. … Current coverage adjustments have elevated out-of-pocket bills for shoppers,” De Paula Hanika stated. “On the similar time, the nationwide dialog across the unsustainable price of healthcare has intensified. In mild of those challenges, we needed to increase Uno’s know-how to make it simpler for people to unlock 1000’s in financial savings and overcome monetary limitations to accessing care. That is particularly essential at a time when lower-income Individuals are being disproportionately impacted by rising costs throughout the board.”

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