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Health Care’s Colossus: How UnitedHealth harnesses its physician empire to squeeze profits out of patients

It’s no secret that UnitedHealth is a colossus: It’s the country’s largest health insurer and the fourth-largest company of any type by revenue, just behind Apple. And thanks to a series of stealthy deals, almost 1 in 10 U.S. doctors — some 90,000 clinicians — now either work for UnitedHealth or are

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Private Medicare Plans and Vertical Integration Yield UnitedHealth $15.8 Billion in Profits Between January and June

UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurance conglomerate by far, continues to show how rewarding it is for shareholders when corporate lawyers find loopholes in well-intentioned legislation – and game the Medicare Advantage program in ways most lawmakers and regulators didn’t anticipate and certainly didn’t intend – to boost profits. UnitedHealth

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11 arrested during protest at UnitedHealthcare HQ, alleging company is systemically “refusing to approve care”

Eleven protesters were arrested by Minnetonka police for blocking the street, according to the People’s Action Institute, which helped organize the protest as part of its Care Over Cost campaign. The campaign says it aims to bring attention to the health insurance company’s “systemic practice of refusing to approve care

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Protesters say 11 arrested outside UnitedHealthcare HQ in Minnetonka

Protest organizers say 11 people were arrested Monday outside UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnetonka during an event spotlighting what critics say is a pattern of improper coverage denials by the nation’s largest health insurer. Critics in recent years have focused on prior authorization rules that patients and health care providers say have wrongly

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FTC report slams pharmacy benefit managers, says firms inflate drug costs, squeeze competitors

An ongoing Federal Trade Commission study finds pharmacy benefit managers may have inflated drug costs while squeezing independent pharmacies, enriching some of the largest companies in the country at the expense of patients. The interim FTC report released Tuesday details the market influence of companies known as PBMs, which are

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UnitedHealth CEO Sold $5.6 Million in Shares the Same Day as Ransomware Attack

On February 21, the same day that a ransomware attack began to wreak havoc throughout UnitedHealth Group and the U.S. health care system, five of UnitedHealth’s C-suite executives, including CEO Andrew Witty and the company’s chief legal officer, sold $17.7 million worth of their stock in the company. Witty alone accounted for

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