UnitedHealth Group news and information

Falling Medicare Advantage payments helped contribute to UnitedHealth Group posting a year-over-year first-quarter decline in profits on Thursday, with the nation's largest health insurer saying it was also hampered by a large public-sector customer switching from fully funded to self-funded...
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A Nevada state court jury found the state's largest health management organization liable Thursday for $24 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak that lawyers called the largest in U.S. history.
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A UnitedHealth Group unit put money ahead of people by failing to properly monitor a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol, a lawyer told a state court jury.
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One of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital operators is building its own insurance arm to sell health plans directly to employers.
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Health insurance companies are expecting reduced Medicare Advantage payments to unfavorably impact revenue next year.
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Insurer WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., closed on a previously announced deal to acquire the South Carolina Medicaid business of UnitedHealth Group for undisclosed terms. The South Carolina Department of Insurance valued the company at $27 million in approving the deal.
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The Mayo Clinic announced it will collaborate with Optum, the data analytics arm of health insurance holding company UnitedHealth Group, in the launch of Optum Labs. The healthcare research center in Cambridge, Mass., will marry clinical information, provided by Mayo's electronic health-record...
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In an MGMA-ACMPE survey, medical practice professionals gave their highest overall payer-satisfaction ratings to Medicare Part B.
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WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., has completed its acquisition of Easy Choice Health Plan, a Long Beach, Calif., Medicare Advantage insurer.
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WellCare Health Plans, a Tampa, Fla.-based Medicaid and Medicare insurance company, said it agreed to acquire UnitedHealth Group's South Carolina Medicaid business.
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