UnitedHealth

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

The Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth, owner of the biggest U.S. health insurer, a leading manager of drug benefits and a sprawling network of doctor groups. The investigators have in recent weeks been interviewing healthcare-industry representatives in sectors where UnitedHealth competes, including doctor groups, according to

After being sold to Optum, a subsidiary of the health care colossus UnitedHealth Group, naviHealth denied coverage for at least two elderly patients against their doctors’ advice, forcing them to accumulate tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses before they died, according to reporting from STAT News. Employees alleged

UnitedHealth Group limits the ability of its workers to deviate from the AI projections, according to the lawsuit. Citing the news article, the complaint says employees who don’t follow the model are disciplined and terminated, without regard to whether patients needed more care.

The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehabilitation care for older and disabled Americans as profits soared, a STAT investigation has found. UnitedHealth Group has repeatedly said its algorithm, which predicts