Local businesses raised more than $40,000 for the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) at a recent dinner event in Covington, La. The businesses’ generosity will help fund medical grants for families in the New Orleans area who need support paying for their children’s medical bills.
Through UHCCF, families can receive grants of up to $5,000 annually per child ($10,000 lifetime maximum per child) to help pay for health-related services not covered, or not fully covered, by their parents’ commercial health insurance plan. Since 2007, UHCCF has awarded 17,000 grants valued at more than $43 million to children and their families across the U. S.
Local businesses contributing included presenting partner Hub International as well as LCMC Health, Alford & Associates, BXS Insurance, Dwight Andrus Insurance, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, Gallagher, Labcorp, People’s Health, Louisiana Women’s Healthcare and Woman’s Hospital, Cahaba Benefits Group, Gilsbar, Hollis Companies, Louisiana Companies, Massad Olinde Benefits Consulting, McGriff Insurance Services, Rogers Benefit Group, and USI.
UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) Louisiana grant recipient, Jennifer Johnson (second from left), is pictured with her daughter Siena’s speech therapist, Paula Teachout (left), Joe Ochipinti, CEO, UnitedHealthcare-Gulf States and his wife Deirdre.