I hope Minnesotans read about the testimony of UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Wednesday. It’s an eye-opener about the corporate practices of our Eden Prairie health insurance/big data/whatever behemoth.  Witty was on the receiving end of scathing comments from a bipartisan group of senators — […]

In health care, no one is bigger than UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest private health insurer and largest employer of physicians. The nearly $400 billion umbrella company also helps run hospitals, has rapidly acquired outpatient surgery centers, is expanding into home health services — and fell victim to a cyberattack

UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chairman Stephen Hemsley and three senior executives netted a combined $101.5 million from stock sales made over four months leading up to when the public became aware of a federal antitrust investigation. The sales occurred between Oct. 16, a week after the largest health insurer in the

UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage healthcare costs—independent pharmacies—out of business. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are the shadowy middlemen who decide what drugs you can buy, where you can buy them, and at

UnitedHealth’s recent cyberattack underscores a critical truth: no entity, no matter how vast its resources, is immune to the ever-looming threat of cybercrime. This breach, resulting in the potential theft of sensitive patient data, is a stark reminder of the urgent need for comprehensive health care reform–and reining in the

The probe opens a new layer of scrutiny on the largest US health insurer that operates in pharmacy benefits, medical care, technology and other services. It emerged out of concerns about UnitedHealth’s acquisitions of health-care providers and data companies, according to one of the people, who asked not to be